[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#674517: initscripts: RAMTMP is turned on during upgrades

[Roger Leigh]

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 02:12:32PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Roger Leigh <rleigh at codelibre.net> (25/05/2012):
> > We previously didn't enable this for upgrades primarily because it
> > wasn't possible to.  It wasn't possible to upgrade /etc/default/rcS.
> > Also, quite a few people complained about the semantics of RAM* in
> > rcS changing since it used to refer to /var/* rather than the new
> > locations (mainly from RAMRUN and RAMLOCK).  To address these concerns,
> > all the RAM* settings were moved to /etc/default/tmpfs, putting all
> > the tmpfs-related settings in a single place.  However, this does
> > result in tmpfs being enabled on upgrade.
> > 
> > Whether the default is set to enabled or disabled, we now have a single
> > place to configure it, which will take effect for upgrades or new
> > installs.  Having a consistent default for both upgrades and new
> > installs is, I think, generally desirable, irrespective of what that
> > default ends up being.
> 
> Changing the default on upgrades in *not* acceptable.

We should probably only have done that for RAMLOCK.  It's definitely
possible to continue to look in rcS for RAMSHM and RAMTMP.  I'll
look at it on Monday.

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