On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 19:23, Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 5:11 AM, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych@gmail.com> wrote:
Shouldn't /var/empty be created by filesystem package, instead of by packages that require it? (like openssh and openntpd)
It is.
It is not: $ pacman -Ql filesystem | grep empty $
The problem is these packages "install" it in their tarball, so when you remove one of them and pacman sees an empty directory left behind, it thinks it is no longer necessary and removes it.
Yes, I know this, but what I suggest is to fix in in a different way: installing it as part of filesystem and fix packages to not install it. Thomas' addition of /var/empty existence check is okay though, because sshd is important enough to be working regardless of /var/empty issues. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)