On 6 February 2013 15:30, William Hubbs <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 10:23:06AM -0500, Mike Gilbert wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Ian Stakenvicius <[email protected]> wrote: >> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> > Hash: SHA256 >> > >> > On 06/02/13 09:53 AM, Markos Chandras wrote: >> >> On 6 February 2013 14:18, Ian Stakenvicius <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >> >>> So, *my* systems do have /var/run -> /run , which means at some >> >>> point the /run migration did happen and compatibility symlinks >> >>> were created. If hwoarang's systems don't have this, there must >> >>> be an issue somewhere. >> >>> >> >> >> >> My system is a brand new ~testing installation with a >> >> stage3-amd64-20130110.tar.bz2. I am not sure who is responsible >> >> for creating this symlink. I see the symlink is present on that >> >> stage3 tarball so somehow it must have been removed from my system. >> >> Even if it was a user error, then shouldn't there be a mechanism of >> >> recreating it on every boot if it's gone missing? At least until >> >> all init scripts migrate to /run. >> >> >> > >> > ..there was a discussion a week or two back about portage cleaning up >> > symlinks, or something that needs to be done to keep portage warning >> > about symlinks, or something. Anyways, I'm wondering if a change was >> > made related to that and for whatever reason portage is now cleaning >> > /var/run >> > >> >> Portage will "cleanup" the /var/run symlink after unmerging the last >> package that installed files under /var/run. >> >> I think an early init script (bootmisc?) needs to create the /var/run >> symlink if it is missing. > > The only problem with this approach is it doesn't solve the issue for > people who are not using OpenRc. > > William >
You mean the issue for people not having /var/run->/run and not running openrc? Do all rc systems expect a /var/run->/run? If so, let other rc system developers to fix it properly in their code. Since we do have the ability to fix it in openrc I would say please do it just to make sure systems will remain functional until all init scripts are properly fixed. -- Regards, Markos Chandras - Gentoo Linux Developer http://dev.gentoo.org/~hwoarang
