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Bug#620870: FHS update regarding this issue



On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 09:48:53PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 11:00:21PM -0400, Jeff Licquia wrote:
> > FWIW, the LSB workgroup is working on an update to the FHS, and this
> > issue is one of the primary motivations for the update.
> > 
> > The FHS bug linked above is where we are coordinating our work.  In
> > addition, see the fhs-discuss thread here:
> > 
> > https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/fhs-discuss/2011-May/000061.html
> > 
> > Our conclusion seems to be, so far: /run shall exist for the same
> > basic purpose as /var/run historically, and its contents shall not
> > be assumed to be persistent.
> > 
> > Please comment on the FHS bug if you feel this is not sufficient or
> > otherwise wrong.
> 
> The FHS should make clear that /run is mounted and writable even in situation
> where /var or / might not yet be, since it replaces /lib/init/rw.

Agreed, this is one of its key defining characteristics.

> Concerning this bug, I think we should add /run to the policy without waiting
> for the new FHS, since it might contain changes that we might want to postpone
> for squeeze+2.

Sounds good.  From my POV there are no changes since the last discussion
of the text--I've just been working on getting the implementation going,
and that hasn't changed anything.

> How far are we in /run support in sid ?

initramfs-tools: Changes are now all in git; just waiting for the
  upload.
initscripts: Waiting on initramfs-tools, but otherwise ready to
  go bar a couple of patches I have in git
(http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/sysvinit;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/run4)

So basically everything is done for getting /run working, and then
we'll have some followup work migrating things once that's in place.


Regards,
Roger

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