[Pkg-sysvinit-commits] r1379 - in sysvinit/trunk/debian: . initscripts

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

Author: pere
Date: 2009-07-07 19:12:34 +0000 (Tue, 07 Jul 2009)
New Revision: 1379

Modified:
   sysvinit/trunk/debian/changelog
   sysvinit/trunk/debian/initscripts/rcS.5
Log:
Document in rcS(5) how RAMRUN and RAMLOCK affect packages creating
directories in /var/run and /var/lock (Closes: #422257).

Modified: sysvinit/trunk/debian/changelog
===================================================================
--- sysvinit/trunk/debian/changelog	2009-07-07 18:40:39 UTC (rev 1378)
+++ sysvinit/trunk/debian/changelog	2009-07-07 19:12:34 UTC (rev 1379)
@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@
     the versioned relation, as the version needed
     (1.32+1.33-WIP-2003.04.14-1) was included in a version before
     oldstable (Closes: #379340).
+  * Document in rcS(5) how RAMRUN and RAMLOCK affect packages creating
+    directories in /var/run and /var/lock (Closes: #422257).
 
  -- Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at debian.org>  Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:04:20 +0200
 

Modified: sysvinit/trunk/debian/initscripts/rcS.5
===================================================================
--- sysvinit/trunk/debian/initscripts/rcS.5	2009-07-07 18:40:39 UTC (rev 1378)
+++ sysvinit/trunk/debian/initscripts/rcS.5	2009-07-07 19:12:34 UTC (rev 1379)
@@ -101,13 +101,15 @@
 Make /var/run/ available as a ram file system (tmpfs).  Will also disable
 cleaning of /var/run/ during boot.  Set to 'yes' to enable, to 'no' to disable.
 The size of the tmpfs can be controlled using TMPFS_SIZE and RUN_SIZE in
-/etc/defaults/tmpfs.
+/etc/defaults/tmpfs.  Because of this, packages can not expect directories in /var/run
+to exist after boot.  Packages expecting this are buggy and need to be fixed.
 
 .IP \fBRAMLOCK\fP
 Make /var/lock/ available as a ram file system (tmpfs).  Will also disable
 cleaning of /var/lock/ during boot.  Set to 'yes' to enable, to 'no' to disable.
 The size of the tmpfs can be controlled using TMPFS_SIZE and LOCK_SIZE in
-/etc/defaults/tmpfs.
+/etc/defaults/tmpfs.  Because of this, packages can not expect directories in /var/lock
+to exist after boot.  Packages expecting this are buggy and need to be fixed.
 
 .IP \fBASYNCMOUNTNFS\fP
 Set this to 'no' to disable asynchronous mounting of network drives