El 27/05/11 10:59, Roger Leigh escribió:
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 10:49:52AM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
Ok, I'm starting to understand the idea of making symlinks only in the
initial install.
Assuming that I manage to do the same in a different way, it would be
ok for you, right?
Absolutely.
(In particular, I'm thinking about creating /var/run and /var/lock
symlinks even if they are provided as directories inside the .deb.
As far as they are never dropped, I think that would be cleaner than
letting dpkg remove them and restoring afterwards).
I was thinking about this while waking up this morning. I've attached
a patch to do this.
We retain /var/run and /var/lock as directories. This means all
upgrades will be reliable--there's no gap where they might not
exist. In the initial install we convert them to symlinks in
the postinst. I've created a shell function to do this, which
also takes care to move the contents (if any). At this point it's
extremely unlikely anything will be present (there isn't testing
with debootstrap), but it doesn't hurt.
No "moving things", please. You told me this was for bootstrapping only,
so I'll skip that part.
If base-files is going to be officially in charge of creating those
symlinks in the initial install, I hope that nobody else is fiddling
with them (in the initial install).
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