From: Florian Philipp <lists@binarywings.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What to do with /var/run?
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 09:28:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51175A29.3090002@binarywings.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN0CFw15FF-FaPrUehXdPE_+42s7voKNGj4jz_O1aoCMGHrfvw@mail.gmail.com>
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Am 10.02.2013 06:11, schrieb Grant:
> I received the following ELOG message after an emerge:
>
> * One or more symlinks to directories have been preserved in order to
> * ensure that files installed via these symlinks remain accessible. This
> * indicates that the mentioned symlink(s) may be obsolete remnants of an
> * old install, and it may be appropriate to replace a given symlink with
> * the directory that it points to.
> *
> * /var/run
>
> Should I change anything?
>
> - Grant
>
If my understanding of the situation is correct, we see this message
whenever a package is updated that in the old version installed to
/var/run and now has migrated to /run.
Even if I'm wrong, there is nothing to be done. /var/run is intended to
be a symlink to /run. If it is, then all is fine.
Regards,
Florian Philipp
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-10 8:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-10 5:11 [gentoo-user] What to do with /var/run? Grant
2013-02-10 6:47 ` J. Roeleveld
2013-02-10 7:04 ` J. Roeleveld
2013-02-10 8:28 ` Florian Philipp [this message]
2013-02-10 11:49 ` Michael Mol
2013-02-10 12:40 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-02-10 13:14 ` Michael Mol
2013-02-10 13:33 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-02-10 13:42 ` Florian Philipp
2013-02-10 17:58 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-02-10 15:29 ` covici
2013-02-10 15:55 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-02-10 16:46 ` covici
2013-02-10 17:03 ` Florian Philipp
2013-02-10 18:01 ` covici
2013-02-10 18:41 ` Florian Philipp
2013-02-10 19:14 ` covici
2013-02-10 20:54 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-02-10 21:41 ` covici
2013-02-10 15:53 ` Dale
2013-02-10 15:56 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-02-10 16:39 ` Dale
2013-02-10 16:56 ` Florian Philipp
2013-02-10 17:39 ` Dale
2013-02-10 17:56 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-02-10 18:00 ` Florian Philipp
2013-02-10 19:17 ` Grant
2013-02-10 19:42 ` Florian Philipp
2013-02-16 20:08 ` Grant
2013-02-16 23:28 ` Florian Philipp
2013-02-10 13:14 ` Neil Bothwick
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