[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Re: Changing packages to cope with /var/run and /var/log being tmpfs.

2006-09-16 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
I guess we need to conflict with the packages who expect persistens in /var/run/ and /var/lock to avoid breaking partial upgrades were sysvinit is upgraded while other packages are left alone. Something like Conflict: exim4-base (= 4.62-4) might do it, if a updated exim4 version is uploaded

Re: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Re: Changing packages to cope with /var/run and /var/log being tmpfs.

2006-09-16 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 16 Sep 2006, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: Not sure how to handle those packages where we do not know when the fix will be uploaded. A simple conflict without a version seem a bit harsh for a essential package to do. Any opinions on this? None, AFAIK. I think we will have to add an

Re: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Re: Changing packages to cope with /var/run and /var/log being tmpfs.

2006-09-16 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh] None, AFAIK. I think we will have to add an unversioned conflicts on them, and update it to versioned when they fix their side. This is fine right now, as our packages are going to experimental (and will have to for quite a while -- there is a lot to fix to get