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On Tue, 17 May 2011 19:12:38 -0500 |
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William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:50:32PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> > I would be interested to hear how you plan to do the migration, |
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> > given that everyone else has managed to screw it up... |
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> I'm not sure what you mean here. Openrc git will mount a tmpfs on /run |
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> if it exists and create a lock directory inside the tmpfs. |
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> To make it work, I just need a new release of baselayout to make the |
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> /run directory. Then, I also need to figure out where in the boot |
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> process to make the symbolic links from /var/lock to /run/lock and |
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> from /var/run to /run. |
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> what else am I missing? |
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The problem is that packages that have things installed to the old |
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directories are going to get confused when upgraded if things have been |
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moved around behind their backs. |
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You may be better having both directories present, and not attempting |
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to rename or move things at all. Then start fixing packages that install |
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to the old directories. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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