[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#679612: return of the undead: /lib/init/rw

[Roger Leigh]

On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 01:50:10PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> I was of the opinion, that initscripts was supposed to clean up i.e.
> remove /lib/init/rw on upgrades (vaguely remember out discussion about
> rsyslog and the leftover sendsigs.omit.d directory [1]).
> Apparently this is not the case.

We can't remove it on upgrade due to it being a mounted and in-use
filesystem (so the mountpoint can't be rmdir'ed).

We could potentially clean it up on reboot, the exception being
when / is read-only.  There was a reason why we didn't do that, but
I can't remember off the top of my head what the reason was.  It
might have been to avoid breaking scripts relying on it, but that's
done now.


Regards,
Roger

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