Bug#723966: installation-reports: /root directory deleted when re-installing

[Paul Hardy <unifoundry@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 8:29 AM, Paul Hardy <unifoundry@gmail.com> wrote:
> Cyril,
>
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 7:28 AM, Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> wrote:
>>
>> Control: retitle -1 installation-reports: /root directory deleted when
>> re-installing

Would it be possible to copy /root someplace temporarily during
installation, for example to /home/root if /home is an available file
system or even a RAM-based temporary file system (which won't help
during a kernel panic)?  Then after /root is re-created, files could
get copied back.

Alternatively, if there are files in /root maybe a warning message
could be printed.

I bring this up now in hopes that some change can be made in time for
the buster freeze.

Thank you,


Paul Hardy