Fwd: Bug#344758: init.d script should create /var/run/dirmngr

2006-01-12 Thread Thomas Hood
The submitter of #344758 wrote: The script should create /var/run/dirmngr to allow users to map their /var/run to a temporary filesystem like tmpfs. Thanks. Peter Eisentraut wrote: What do you think about this request? It seems reasonable, but I think if this should be supported, there

Re: Fwd: Bug#344758: init.d script should create /var/run/dirmngr

2006-01-06 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 05 Jan 2006, Steve Langasek wrote: BUT, if you do, don't ship /var/run inside the deb. Why? Because: 1. It will go away on reboot and if your service isn't enabled, it won't be re-created. dpkg will still think it should be there, however. And what does that

Re: Fwd: Bug#344758: init.d script should create /var/run/dirmngr

2006-01-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 09:44:35AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Thu, 05 Jan 2006, Steve Langasek wrote: BUT, if you do, don't ship /var/run inside the deb. Why? Because: 1. It will go away on reboot and if your service isn't enabled, it won't be

Re: Fwd: Bug#344758: init.d script should create /var/run/dirmngr

2006-01-06 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Steve Langasek] That's fine; I'm just saying that there's not much point in telling people to *not* ship /var/run (or subdirectories thereof) in their package. Hmm, it should be noted that if you do remove /var/run/foo from your package, you need to make sure the postrm deletes the directory

Re: Fwd: Bug#344758: init.d script should create /var/run/dirmngr

2006-01-06 Thread Thomas Hood
Would it be useful if the initscript that clears /var/run also created a directory hierarchy under /var/run? (There are different ways of implementing thus, but we can talk about details if this feature is deemed worthwhile.) -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Fwd: Bug#344758: init.d script should create /var/run/dirmngr

2006-01-06 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Thomas Hood] Would it be useful if the initscript that clears /var/run also created a directory hierarchy under /var/run? I cannot fathom how telling someone else to do a particular 'mkdir -p' and 'chown' could possibly be simpler than putting the 'mkdir -p' and 'chown' into your init script.

Re: Fwd: Bug#344758: init.d script should create /var/run/dirmngr

2006-01-06 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Steve Langasek wrote: That's fine; I'm just saying that there's not much point in telling people to *not* ship /var/run (or subdirectories thereof) in their package. Well, there is the slight point that if you ship /var/run/foo in your package, you (a) probably use /var/run/foo just assuming

Re: Fwd: Bug#344758: init.d script should create /var/run/dirmngr

2006-01-05 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 04 Jan 2006, Steve Langasek wrote: On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 10:43:57PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: initscripts co-maintainer hat on Do it. We are *heavly* considering support for ephemeral /var/run (which is orthogonal to /run or anything else in that topic), so you

Re: Fwd: Bug#344758: init.d script should create /var/run/dirmngr

2006-01-05 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 09:07:58AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Wed, 04 Jan 2006, Steve Langasek wrote: On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 10:43:57PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: initscripts co-maintainer hat on Do it. We are *heavly* considering support for ephemeral

Fwd: Bug#344758: init.d script should create /var/run/dirmngr

2006-01-04 Thread Peter Eisentraut
What do you think about this request? It seems reasonable, but I think if this should be supported, there ought to be a general policy (formal or informal) on it because I think many other init scripts will suffer from similar problems. -- Forwarded message -- Subject:

Re: Fwd: Bug#344758: init.d script should create /var/run/dirmngr

2006-01-04 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Peter Eisentraut] What do you think about this request? It seems reasonable, but I think if this should be supported, there ought to be a general policy (formal or informal) on it because I think many other init scripts will suffer from similar problems. This issue was mentioned in the

Re: Fwd: Bug#344758: init.d script should create /var/run/dirmngr

2006-01-04 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 04 Jan 2006, Peter Samuelson wrote: [Peter Eisentraut] What do you think about this request? It seems reasonable, but I [...] This issue was mentioned in the /run discussion we just had on this list. I'm in favor of forcing all init scripts to mkdir -p initscripts co-maintainer

Re: Fwd: Bug#344758: init.d script should create /var/run/dirmngr

2006-01-04 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 10:43:57PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Wed, 04 Jan 2006, Peter Samuelson wrote: [Peter Eisentraut] What do you think about this request? It seems reasonable, but I [...] This issue was mentioned in the /run discussion we just had on this list.