[arch-dev-public] WARNING: changes to screen in testing

Thomas Bächler thomas at archlinux.org
Wed Oct 31 14:07:15 EDT 2012


Am 22.10.2012 20:00, schrieb Thomas Bächler:
> When you run with systemd's default tmpfiles configuration and you use
> screen, your screen sockets are deleted after 10 days. This is bad and
> caused me some trouble.
> 
> I changed screen in testing to use /run/screens instead, which won't be
> cleared by tmpfiles - and it is the correct place for this stuff anyway.
> 
> However, when upgrading the screen package, your existing screens will
> become unaccessible. How should we handle this?
> 

Okay, finally pushed a new version with a helpful post_install message.
I'll move this to extra later unless someone objects.

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