On Wed, 30.03.11 21:08, Colin Watson (cjwatson(a)ubuntu.com) wrote:
> So, I'd like to correct myself: "Ubuntu has
agreed" to "To me it appears
> that they will do it".
If you need somebody who works on Ubuntu for Canonical to support this,
I'm happy to be such a person. Supporting /var/run reliably in early
boot has long been an irritant and requires at least one hack in our
installer, and while /dev/.initramfs is functional it isn't exactly
pretty.
Certainly, we should be conservative when introducing new top-level
directories, but not to the point of obstinacy in the face of genuine
problems. /run makes sense, it already has quite widespread agreement,
it feels Unixy, and migration will be straightforward with the aid of a
few symlinks. I should probably not try to cram this into Ubuntu 11.04
now, but I'm happy to make this happen in Ubuntu 11.10.
Perfect, that's great news! Anything from Ubuntu's side you'd still like
to see changed in this scheme?
If you have a longer devel cycle left for 11.10 you could probably even
go directly for symlinks in /var/run and /var/lock, how we plan it for
F16, instead of just bind mounting them like we do it for F15.
Lennart
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Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.