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 1Ojddy-0006rg-9y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 19:40:50 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E4289E0AD8; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 19:40:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f53.google.com (mail-fx0-f53.google.com [209.85.161.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1820E0AD0 for ; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 19:40:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm15 with SMTP id 15so1187058fxm.40 for ; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 12:40:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:sender:received :in-reply-to:references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=bm201tuDsbuxFEPD8yi233zeIbW+pBizBNx1G/e4la4=; b=Xk6pt5NzYeqT0WUfArMa1d4gjPO2k4/1vJXa2o406rR9H4BL9CXFVMTruN3jh8D/ma KARe4Nyt23DPOUnFQ1MO1F6Fjzyj0q6p8aIO0sP2j5FxARVLxj5KHnOiN3RYCo6thqv5 gHSY+/10b+bfitNMDDcFhfBiUoE7jBzhC2+5s= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=tiE143TM4RDvyC6DpEoTW2GWBDA8Wbt7zaLTmugEAdrnEyaFUJ9PcBYJz1XNezRxRa WqZUVC6v4XdDSBLIkV/hGo7oK3ZVj7Q93bZgFvNSgrg0yUo4wrYFamFUMNH8cHjQlW3h DNlf68TCCOyWN5eeOCpGkwHT3zNisfG/QAHw0= 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 Received: by 10.223.125.196 with SMTP id z4mr718934far.80.1281642033753; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 12:40:33 -0700 (PDT) Sender: vapierfilter@gmail.com Received: by 10.223.109.134 with HTTP; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 12:40:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4C644C98.6010708@caf.com.tr> References: <20100812182926.GA5771@zptr-nb01> <20100812184216.GB5771@zptr-nb01> <4C6441E4.4040907@gentoo.org> <4C644C98.6010708@caf.com.tr> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 15:40:31 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: iUkmf-OUl86kSITjh2Wzb71hzGo Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] keepdir /var/run/package/? From: Mike Frysinger To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: e1731cb9-ed6e-4fbd-807e-bed655302304 X-Archives-Hash: 90a384bb652e3c7fcf794175971b1749 On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Eray Aslan wrote: > On 08/12/2010 09:48 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: >> It says "Files under this directory", not "Files and directories under >> this directory." > > Fair enough. > > So our policy basically is "tmpfs is not supported for /var/run" (and als= o > for /var/lock I suppose). it may have been in the past, but it's best to move forward and not sit in the past > It will be somewhat more work but instead of the above, we can say "tmpfs > might be used for /var/run and /var/lock and the init scripts should hand= le > this correctly". =A0It feels (for want of a better word) better. i certainly use a tmpfs on /var/run to minimize disk writes. packages that break i file bugs for and/or fix myself. it isnt that hard. plus, it's just good behavior. if /var/run gets removed for whatever reason, people have to re-emerge a bunch of packages to simply create a subdir ? that's silly. -mike