On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 07:28:12PM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote: > On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 09:08:23PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 08:58:29PM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote: > > > > I'm a bit surprised by #247134. Doesn't the "debconf is not a registry" > > > mantra imply that all data in /var/cache/debconf should be possible to > > > regenerate from config files in /etc/ and the like? > > > > Well, that's the noble intent, but (even aside from debconf not quite > > recreating the bits it needs for itself) I'm not aware that anyone tests > > it and it's probably never been true in reality. > > Heh, I guess I've just revealed how gullible I really am. > Thanks for the reality check.
So drawing the discussion back to the original problem it seems that the only immediate advice we can offer to Franz is: in practice, running with /var/cache on tmpfs is not supported, and we recommend you don't do that. Sorry :( Dominic.