[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#403863: initscripts: Stray file /lib/init/rw/.ramfs not in package list

[Greg Kochanski]

Sorry!   Please note, that if I was insulting anything, it was a file,
not any person.   Please don't be quite so testy!

I should have said "Probably violates the Debian rules for the
filesystem hierarchy standard, as shown on
http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/fhs/fhs-2.3.html#LIBESSENTIALSHAREDLIBRARIESANDKERN
"

According to that document, /lib is reserved for "shared library images
needed to boot the system and run the commands in the root filesystem".

My understanding is that /lib/init/rw/.ramfs is not a shared library 
image, so it probably shouldn't be there.     If there *is* a good
reason, that's one thing, but please stick to the technical issues.

Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Greg Kochanski]
>> The file /lib/init/rw/.ramfs is created, presumably by initscripts.
>> It's not in the package list, and that's not at all a good place to
>> dynamically create a file.  Not to mention, putting a hidden file
>> under /lib is pretty low-class.
> 
> I did not quite get what problem you are describing.  "not a good
> place" and "pretty low-class" do not seem like descriptions of a bug
> nor a problem to me.  They more visualises your personal values, and
> I'm not sure how it is relevant for the boot system.
> 
> /lib/init/rw/.ramfs is created by the initscripts to flag that the
> directory is a ramfs.  It is intentional hidden to avoid name conflict
> with anything we want to store there.
> 
> Friendly,