From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ojd31-0004Fr-Vr for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 19:02:40 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F1CCAE0ACB; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 19:02:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.jolexa.net (mail.jolexa.net [69.164.203.224]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95280E0A8E for ; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 19:02:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.jolexa.net (Postfix, from userid 5001) id CF6185DE3D; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 19:02:25 +0000 (UTC) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5-gr2 (2008-06-10) on helios.jolexa.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=disabled version=3.2.5-gr2 Received: from mail.jolexa.net (mail.jolexa.net [69.164.203.224]) by mail.jolexa.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42D365DDCE for ; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 19:02:25 +0000 (UTC) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:02:24 -0500 From: Jeremy Olexa To: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] keepdir =?UTF-8?Q?/var/run/package/=3F?= In-Reply-To: <4C6441E4.4040907@gentoo.org> References: <20100812182926.GA5771@zptr-nb01> <20100812184216.GB5771@zptr-nb01> <4C6441E4.4040907@gentoo.org> Message-ID: <4845f430eec4c571f191295ac6c6d56b@localhost> X-Sender: darkside@gentoo.org User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/0.4-trunk X-Archives-Salt: 65fbd13b-fbd4-4247-86b0-3be0a94c851b X-Archives-Hash: 54174b9807ec8ef329e546e7c9968069 On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:48:04 +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote: > It says "Files under this directory", not "Files and directories under > this directory." Oh, cmon. If you are going to selectively quote, then I'll give you this: "This directory contains system information data describing the system since it was booted." So in my opinion, it is fine to "rm -rf /var/run/*" on system shutdown... > > Futhermore is continues with, > > "Programs may have a subdirectory of /var/run; this is encouraged for > programs that use more than one run-time file." > > So I'd say keepdir is legal here... Then the app in question can (and should) make the directory, not the ebuild. -Jeremy