FS#27892 - [filesystem] install /var/{lock,run} as symlinks

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera) - Tuesday, 10 January 2012, 10:44 GMT
Last edited by Eric Belanger (Snowman) - Friday, 08 June 2012, 01:20 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To Tom Gundersen (tomegun)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

For filesystem 2011.12, install /var/{lock,run} as symlinks instead of directories.

   filesystem.patch (0.9 KiB)
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Closed by  Eric Belanger (Snowman)
Friday, 08 June 2012, 01:20 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Tom Gundersen (tomegun) - Tuesday, 10 January 2012, 10:57 GMT
Thanks. I already committed this to SVN. However, this might cause issues if people upgrade without having rebooted since the last initscripts upgrade, so I was holding back on this. Any thoughts on how best to deal with it?
Comment by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera) - Tuesday, 10 January 2012, 18:00 GMT
Yes. I think that the most clear/safe way is: warn about this update in news, that this update should be done only if /var/{lock,run} are already symlinks made by initscripts; or run in init(S).
Comment by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera) - Thursday, 12 January 2012, 02:24 GMT
Oh!, also utmp creation should be removed from .install file
   filesystem2.patch (0.6 KiB)
Comment by Matthias Dienstbier (fs4000) - Saturday, 14 January 2012, 20:28 GMT
Shouldn't we use relative symlinks? This would be better, if the filesystem is not mounted in / e.g. for system repair via Live-System.

Fedora uses a relative symlink for /var/mail -> /var/spool/mail, too. (the /run symlinks might be in lines 102 and 103)
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=filesystem.git;a=blob;f=filesystem.spec;h=2a4cd6bb27a467e89c2da0e06076ed642ceeeb2a;hb=HEAD#l40
Comment by Tom Gundersen (tomegun) - Saturday, 28 April 2012, 14:46 GMT
This is not really fixed. We create the symlinks on boot, but the filesystem package still ships the directories. We were not able to find a way to make pacman DTRT for the transition to work. Any suggestions very welcome.
Comment by Tom Gundersen (tomegun) - Sunday, 03 June 2012, 00:34 GMT
Will be fixed in the next filesystem release, check arch-dev-public for details.

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