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Re: [SCM] d-i finish-install repository branch, master, updated. 2.28-15-gb0325e8



On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 06:41:30PM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> Quoting Colin Watson (cjwatson@debian.org):
> > The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
> > commit b0325e8e80272cfc71c3004f9e0f53f681b0cc74
> > Author: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
> > Date:   Thu May 26 15:26:30 2011 +0100
> > 
> >     Clean up the contents of /run just before unmounting /target, to avoid cruft in the target system.  (Alternatives such as mounting a tmpfs there during installation proved to be too complicated and/or fragile.)
> 
> > +umount /target/run 2>/dev/null || true
> > +rm -rf /target/run/*
> > +
> >  umount -a || true
> 
> Just thinking out loud: isn't there a chance that some dotfiles (or
> dotirs) end up in /run on the installed system...thus leaving us with
> still some cruft left after the above?

Yes.  I tested and found that this wasn't currently the case; I imagine
we can always amend if it turns out to be so later.

I suspect dotfiles/dotdirs are less likely now that people aren't having
to hide these kinds of directories inside /dev; the current trend for
entries in /run seems to be to just leave them out in the open since
there's no real reason not to.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]


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