On Sun, 4 Mar 2012, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> So if I understand you right:
> - the canonical place where all these dirs are created is base-files
> - the migration (of old systems) is however done by initscripts.
I would say that's not completely exact. For /var/run and friends,
base-fil
So if I understand you right:
- the canonical place where all these dirs are created is base-files
- the migration (of old systems) is however done by initscripts.
We've had previously many issues, where files/permissions/etc. from
base-files changed, but were not updated (like now with nsswitch.
On Sun, 4 Mar 2012, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> Hi Santiago.
>
> Couldn't you solve this in a way, so that old absolute symlinks are also
> migrated to relative ones?
That would be very tricky. The current code is in
/var/lib/dpkg/info/base-files.postinst
and it's executed only once in t
Hi Santiago.
Couldn't you solve this in a way, so that old absolute symlinks are
also migrated to relative ones?
Otherwise they will never benefit from this change.
Cheers,
Chris.
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Package: base-files
Version: 6.5
Severity: wishlist
File: /var/run
/var/run currently links to the absolute path /run. For convenience
when accessing the files of a partition other than /, it would help to
have this as a relative symlink to ../run instead. This way,
/srv/somechroot/var/run would
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