On Wed, 30.03.11 21:08, Colin Watson (cjwatson@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > So, I'd like to correct myself: "Ubuntu has agreed" to "To me it appears > > that they will do it". > > If you need somebody who works on Ubuntu for Canonical to support this, > I'm happy to be such a person. Supporting /var/run reliably in early > boot has long been an irritant and requires at least one hack in our > installer, and while /dev/.initramfs is functional it isn't exactly > pretty. > > Certainly, we should be conservative when introducing new top-level > directories, but not to the point of obstinacy in the face of genuine > problems. /run makes sense, it already has quite widespread agreement, > it feels Unixy, and migration will be straightforward with the aid of a > few symlinks. I should probably not try to cram this into Ubuntu 11.04 > now, but I'm happy to make this happen in Ubuntu 11.10. Perfect, that's great news! Anything from Ubuntu's side you'd still like to see changed in this scheme? If you have a longer devel cycle left for 11.10 you could probably even go directly for symlinks in /var/run and /var/lock, how we plan it for F16, instead of just bind mounting them like we do it for F15. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
