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From: Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] The /run migration
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2013 15:03:32
Message-Id: 511270C8.9050901@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] The /run migration by Markos Chandras
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4 On 06/02/13 09:53 AM, Markos Chandras wrote:
5 > On 6 February 2013 14:18, Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o> wrote:
6 >>
7 >> So, *my* systems do have /var/run -> /run , which means at some
8 >> point the /run migration did happen and compatibility symlinks
9 >> were created. If hwoarang's systems don't have this, there must
10 >> be an issue somewhere.
11 >>
12 >
13 > My system is a brand new ~testing installation with a
14 > stage3-amd64-20130110.tar.bz2. I am not sure who is responsible
15 > for creating this symlink. I see the symlink is present on that
16 > stage3 tarball so somehow it must have been removed from my system.
17 > Even if it was a user error, then shouldn't there be a mechanism of
18 > recreating it on every boot if it's gone missing? At least until
19 > all init scripts migrate to /run.
20 >
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22 ..there was a discussion a week or two back about portage cleaning up
23 symlinks, or something that needs to be done to keep portage warning
24 about symlinks, or something. Anyways, I'm wondering if a change was
25 made related to that and for whatever reason portage is now cleaning
26 /var/run
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Re: [gentoo-dev] The /run migration Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>