[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Re: Moving /var/run to a tmpfs?

[Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe]

Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry.com> wrote:
> I believe it is quite clear that the sysadmin is allowed to use tmpfs
> as /var/run/, and that packages which fail to support this has a bug.

Is it? For me it's not. I hardly try to avoid working around my package
manager (if I wouldn't, I could live far more easy without any package
manager at all). And removing files or directories under package
manager's control (well, except conffiles perhaps, but these are
explicitely managed to tolerate this), in fact *is* working around my
package manager.
That was always the only reason for me not to put /var{run,lock} on a
tmpfs.
So, as long as the Debian policy doesn't handle this, it will remain
ugly to have directories shipped with packages just removed from time to
time. As a maintainer I would quite sure reject bugs regarding such
issues, because if I would fix this, the submitter would surely come and
require me to handle the magic disappearing of files under /usr/bin or
directories under /usr/lib or whatever.


regards
   Mario
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