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

[Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe]

Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry.com> wrote:
> If you believe this, you must have misunderstood what make /var/run/
> and /var/lock/ special.  They are supposed to be cleaned at boot, and

Well, bootclean.sh tries hard not to remove directories. Ask why :)

> this feature is not shared with /usr/bin/, /usr/lib or whatever.  It

Not that it would be much of a problem to write and ship an init-script
that cleans /usr/bin and /usr/lib on boot - if it's this what you demand
on to consider something a feature, well... :)

Just to make this clear: I would really like to have the opportunity to
mount /var/lock and /var/run as tmpfs. I don't care if Debian does this
automatically for me, the opportunity would be enough.
However, as long as I cannot be sure, that packages don't ship
directories in there, I cannot do so, because this would break my deal
with my package manager (i.e. "I don't fiddle with it and it cares about
my software"). And I cannot be sure about that, as long as it's not at
least policy-stated. FHS-compliancy, of course, is a stronger demand,
but for me personally, policy-compliance would be enough.


regards
   Mario
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