[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Re: Supporting tmpfs on /var/run

[Thomas Hood]

We need to make a decision about whether and how to support initialization of
/var/run.  The options are:

   0. Don't initialize /var/run at all.  If packages need subdirs or initial files
      in /var/run then they create them in initscripts or elsewhere.

   1. Copy a skeleton dir to /var/run.  I'd suggest something like this:

            cp -a /etc/init-skeleton/var/run/* /var/run

      which could be extended for use elsewhere, e.g.,

            cp -a /etc/init-skeleton/run/* /run

   2. Use dpkg-statoverride as described here:

            http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-sysvinit-devel/2005-December/000295.html

As things stand now, I prefer #1 and hmh prefers #2.  So someone else will have
to break the tie.  :)
-- 
Thomas