On 23 July 2012 16:05, Colin Guthrie <mag...@colin.guthr.ie> wrote: > Well I do not think doing such a move on an in-use filesystem is a > particularly good idea (especially for the /var/run bit which makes use > of several socket files for IPC (think all of dbus breaking). > > So doing such a conversion like this does not seem like a good idea to > me. This is why it is done in the initrd before the switchroot or in the > installer when the system is mounted under /mnt. > > That's my opinion on it. One thought: we could put it in a %post script > provided it was protected via a check on the $DURING_INSTALL variable > and thus only ran in the installer context.
we could set DURING_INSTALL in mgapplet and warn harder not to do anything else while upgrading.
