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On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 06/02/13 09:53 AM, Markos Chandras wrote: |
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>> On 6 February 2013 14:18, Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o> wrote: |
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>>> So, *my* systems do have /var/run -> /run , which means at some |
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>>> point the /run migration did happen and compatibility symlinks |
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>>> were created. If hwoarang's systems don't have this, there must |
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>>> be an issue somewhere. |
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>> My system is a brand new ~testing installation with a |
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>> stage3-amd64-20130110.tar.bz2. I am not sure who is responsible |
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>> for creating this symlink. I see the symlink is present on that |
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>> stage3 tarball so somehow it must have been removed from my system. |
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>> Even if it was a user error, then shouldn't there be a mechanism of |
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>> recreating it on every boot if it's gone missing? At least until |
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>> all init scripts migrate to /run. |
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> ..there was a discussion a week or two back about portage cleaning up |
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> symlinks, or something that needs to be done to keep portage warning |
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> about symlinks, or something. Anyways, I'm wondering if a change was |
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> made related to that and for whatever reason portage is now cleaning |
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> /var/run |
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Portage will "cleanup" the /var/run symlink after unmerging the last |
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package that installed files under /var/run. |
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I think an early init script (bootmisc?) needs to create the /var/run |
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symlink if it is missing. |
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