On 07/14/2010 10:58 AM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Lennart Poettering (mzerqung@xxxxxxxxxxx) said:
>> Since the acceptance by FESCO it has been added to Rawhide together with
>> patched or updated versions of a few related packages. However, what has
>> not been done so far is making it the default in Rawhide. So far it does
>> not "Obsolete" Upstart yet, just "Conflicts" with it. With this mail I
>> want to notify everybody that I am planning to do this change very soon
>> now (tomorrow?). Then, systemd will be pulled in onto your rawhide
>> system and is used exclusively for booting (so far, you can still choose
>> between it and upstart in grub, with a default on upstart), and problems
>> booting should be reported to systemd in rhbz then.
>
> This seems a little backwards. If we want to support both, then we need
> to just leave it as 'Conflicts', and we'll just flip the default in
> comps. By marking it as 'Obsoletes', you effectively make it impossible
> to still boot with upstart, as it will be removed in any yum update.
>
>> d) There's one thing that is not directly related to systemd but which
>> I'd really like to see done at the same time: moving /var/lock and
>> /var/run to tmpfs, like suse and ubuntu already did it. The changes
>> necessary should be small, but probably in a non-trivial number of
>> packages: each mention of /var/run in the .spec files needs to be
>> %ghosted. Also, some minimal changes to rc.sysinit need to be done, so
>> that the dirs are mounted (this could be done by systemd too, in case we
>> get the sysinit split hhoyer started to work on done before
>> F14). Finally, there might be a few packages which start to act confused
>> if their directories beneath /var/run is go away on reboot. But these
>> problems should already have been fixed by the Ubuntuans and Suses of
>> this world for us. It would be really great if somebody would volunteer
>> for this and go through the packages to add %ghost everywhere and ensure
>> otherwise this works out. The ubuntu and suse folks might have some
>> docs around with more ideas about this.
>
> I suspect the biggest issue here is confined daemons, as they may
> not have permissions to create their own directories in /var/run or
> /var/lock once they've been started. Unfortunately, it's the sort of
> flag day that we really can't do unless everything in our tree is fixed.
>
> Bill
Are you talking about mounting shm at /var/run and /var/lock? SELinux
should be able to handle this. But you have a big spec file problem.
rpm -qf /var/run/* | grep -v not | wc
61 61 1853
Lots of directories owned by packages.
--
devel mailing list
devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
