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Re: /run in *unstable*: migration of /lib/init/rw, /dev/.*



]] Henrique de Moraes Holschuh 

| On Sat, 14 May 2011, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
| > ]] Kurt Roeckx 
| > | On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 04:55:01PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
| > | > Packages using /etc
| > | >   /etc/adjtime 
| > | 
| > | That file should probably not be in /etc in the first place,
| > | but be somewhere under /var/lib.  Since FHS 2.2 it even mentions
| > | that this file should be /var/lib/hwclock/adjtime.
| > 
| > It should be on the root fs, else your clock will be wrong in early
| > bootup leading to all kinds of bugs.
| 
| Indeed.  We've dissected this issue before, there's a thread about it in the
| d-devel archives.

I've filed this as a bug[1] against the FHS now, making it a 3.0 blocker,
so hopefully we can get this fixed soon.

[1]: http://bugs.linux-foundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=790

-- 
Tollef Fog Heen
UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are


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