Re: /run in experimental

["Stefan Lippers-Hollmann" <s.L-H@gmx.de>]

Hi

On Friday 13 May 2011, Roger Leigh wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 05:40:13PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 10:23:10AM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
[...]
> With the upload of initramfs-tools (0.99) to unstable, we're now
> ready to upload sysvinit 2.88dsf-13.6 to unstable, available at
>   http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/sysvinit_2.88dsf-13.6.dsc
> if you would like to test it.  I'm just waiting for confirmation
> from the maintainers before I NMU it.

Switching to /run/ triggers a critical bug in ifupdown's init script 
(#623076, #623523, proposed change in #625204). This completely breaks
any kind of network access (including lo), if /etc/network/run is a 
symlink to /dev/shm/network (default). 

Wouldn't it be better to upload a NMU for ifupdown incorporating the 
proposed modifications first and adding a versioned Breaks to 
initscripts 2.88dsf-13.6 accordingly?

I can confirm that your proposed sysvinit 2.88dsf-13.6 in combination 
with initramfs-tools 0.99 and the afforementioned changes applied to 
ifupdown's debian/ifupdown.init are otherwise working fine for me and
fix the recursive symlink unrolling:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 May 13 20:58 /etc/network/run -> /dev/shm/network
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 May 13 20:59 /dev/shm -> /run/shm

Regards
	Stefan Lippers-Hollmann