Re: Fwd: Bug#344758: init.d script should create /var/run/dirmngr
On Thu, 05 Jan 2006, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > > > BUT, if you do, don't ship /var/run inside the deb.
> > > Why?
>
> > Because:
>
> > 1. It will go away on reboot and if your service isn't enabled, it won't
> > be re-created. dpkg will still think it should be there, however.
>
> And what does that break? AFAIK, dpkg will ignore a missing directory on
> package removal without incident.
Well, it is not good form. If you want to ship it there, be my guest. But
don't expect me to tell others to ship it _unless_ there is a real reason to
do so, and so far there isn't (there might be one in the future).
> > 2. We may deploy some auto-create-stuff-in-/var/run solution, and it WILL
> > clash with packages that ship /var/run and recreate it (not that I'd
> > expect that clash to do anything other than mkdir -p be a waste of
> > time -- but better safe than sorry).
> The /var/run directory itself *must* always exist; it has to be on the
> filesystem which holds /var.
Yes. But that has nothing to do with packages shipping stuff inside /var/run
(plus /var/run itself), does it?
> > Also, it makes life easier for us to track down packages that need to be
> > examined for lack of ephemeral /var/run support.
>
> I think you're going to need a more reliable test than this.
Probably.
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