Bug#945269: debian-policy: packages should use tmpfiles.d(5) to create directories below /var
On Sun, Sep 17, 2023 at 10:41:55AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Sep 17, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:
>
> > (I am a little confused by this wording, but I think what you're saying is
> > that /usr is encrypted and read-only, and /var is recreated on each boot.
> > That at least is my understanding of the pattern that you're trying to
> > enable.)
> The general idea is to be able to create /var on the first boot.
Does not that would break users expectation that the system image contains /var
before the first boot ?
A lot of things in /var are caches that are mostly instance-independent and can
be prefilled, but for that, users expect a minimal directory hierarchy to be
present before first boot.
It seems your scheme favors some usecase over some others.
Cheers
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Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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