Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: use of the /run directory

[Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>]

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On Tue, 17 May 2011 19:12:38 -0500
William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:50:32PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > I would be interested to hear how you plan to do the migration,
> > given that everyone else has managed to screw it up...
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean here. Openrc git will mount a tmpfs on /run
> if it exists and create a lock directory inside the tmpfs.
> 
> To make it work, I just need a new release of baselayout to make the
> /run directory. Then, I also need to figure out where in the boot
> process to make the symbolic links from /var/lock to /run/lock and
> from /var/run to /run.
> what else am I missing?

The problem is that packages that have things installed to the old
directories are going to get confused when upgraded if things have been
moved around behind their backs.

You may be better having both directories present, and not attempting
to rename or move things at all. Then start fixing packages that install
to the old directories.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh

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