[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] [Fwd: hal regression in svn head]

[Michael Biebl]

Michael Biebl schrieb:
> 
> Hi Michael,
> 
> in hal Debian svn you recently committed some cleanups of the
> postinst. In particular you dropped the "|| true" from the chmod'ing
> of /var/run. This causes the package to fail to install from scratch,
> since the directory does not exist yet.
> 
> I fixed that in Ubuntu, you should do the same in Debian IMHO.
> 
> Thanks for considering,

My take on this issue actually is this: imho packages should list the
/var/run/$foo dir in the deb package, the chown should happen in
postinst, and the mkdir/chown/chmod should be removed from all init scripts.

The current practice imho is only a hack to support tmpfs on /var/run.
If you want to have the tmpfs feature, initscripts should backup
/var/run and restore it for you. No need to duplicate this functionality
 in all 20 init scripts (or so). Besides this only wastes cpu cycles on
every boot.

And what if you don't have a init script? I had this problem once with
an pam modules which expected an existing /var/run/bar directory.

I guess I should bring this topic up on d-d.

Cheers,
Michael

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