On Sep 16, Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org> wrote: > are checked and mounted. (I do not know how they are going to handle > the fact that /var/run is needed before /var is mounted, mount --move > requires kernel 2.6 afaict.) etch requires a 2.6 kernel too. > This is nice, but is going to break packages that either ship a > subdirectory of /var/run in the deb or generate it once in > postinst and rely on its existence afterwards. I think it was considered a bug even before this, because admins may locally mount a tmpfs on /var/run. > The whole thing is grey territory in FHS, but still I tend to think > that sysvinit should somehow preserve the (empty) directory structure > of /var/run through reboots. Either by using some find+tar magic after Not worth the added complexity. Fix the bugs instead of adding workaround which will need to be maintained forever. -- ciao, Marco
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