On 11/23/2010 03:02 PM, Till Maas wrote: > On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 09:48:30PM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: > >> I hereby want to let everybody know that in the next days I will turn >> on >> /var/run and /var/lock on tmpfs on Rawhide/F15. This is in accordance >> with the following accepted F15 feature: >> â >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/var-run-tmpfs > > The release notes section contains this: > | /var/run and /var/lock are now mounted from tmpfs, and hence emptied on > | reboot. Applications must ensure to recreate their own files/dirs on > | startup, and cannot rely that doing this at package installtion will > | suffice > > But this does not mention tmpfiles.d which you wrote can be used instead > of creating files or dirs on startup. > >> c) YOU need to edit your .spec file and place a %ghost where >> appropriate. >> >> c) YOU need to test if you package still works, and if necessary file >> AVC bugs, add an /etc/tmpfiles.d drop-in file to your program, or patch >> it so that it is able to recreate these directories beneath /var/run on >> its own. > > Imho there should be a packaging guideline to make it clear what needs > to be done in which cases. E.g. when to %ghost files and when not. I'm curious, one of my packages has /var/run/dspam in the specfile and /var/lock/subsystem/dspam used in the initscript... I added a %ghost for the second and now I'm wondering if I even need to.. Should I revert that change? and just %ghost /var/run/dspam ? -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
