[arch-general] /var/run should not be contained in the package file list.

[Leonid Isaev]

On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:33:24 +0100
Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Leonid Isaev <lisaev at umail.iu.edu> wrote:
> > The package-owner it 'filesystem'. But I disagree with the proposal because
> 
> I'm not really sure what you are disagreeing with...
> 
> > (1) /var/run is a symlink, not a separate FS and (2) initscripts should
> > accomplish the minimum required operations and should mount only absolutely
> > necessary FS (not /tmp, /media or the like).
> 
> Currently we have the following:
>  * /var/run is a symlink (created on boot) to /run. This should be
> changed in the future so the symlink is shipped with the filesystem
> package, but we have not figured out the transtion yet.

Ah, OK my information seems to be old. But fs package (2011.12) used to have a
symlink, right? Why was this changed?

>  * /run is a tmpfs, so if packages contain files in /var/run or in
> /run, they will not survive a reboot. They should use the tmpfiles
> mechanisem which we added for this purpose.
>  * traditionally rc.sysinit deleted the contents of /var/run,
> /var/lock and /tmp on boot, we have now a simpler and cleaner
> situation since /var/run and /var/lock are on tmpfs. We did not force
> /tmp to be on tmpfs as it does not matter from the point of view of
> early boot. /media is probably going away in the long-run anyway, but
> does at any rate not have anything to do with boot, so no danger of
> that being touched.
> 
> -t


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