tags 188364 - patch thanks On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 10:42:27PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> I just noticed the same problem because I wiped my /var/cache to clean > up. According to FHS 5.2 [1] applications must regenerate their stuff > below /var/cache without complaining. Deleting _files_ under /var/cache is permitted; programs are not expected to recover from deleting the entire directory structure (in some cases they will not even have privileges to do so). > AFAIK FHS bugs are now to be considered serious, so I'm thinking about > raising the severity. Please don't. > It also has a patch (I just tagged the bug), so can you please > consider applying it to fix this by the Sarge release? Some of the problems with the patch: - It duplicates the code to create the directories in four different places - It adds unnecessary code to create Dir::State::Lists and the corresponding partial directory. It is not necessary for apt to attempt to clean up that mess any more than if the user decides to remove /etc, even if I agreed with your FHS interpretation - It doesn't check the return from stat(2) correctly - It doesn't check the return from mkdir(2) at all On top of these, I don't consider it necessary. I'm unlikely to apply an improper patch for a wishlist bug. -- - mdz
