374025 – sys-boot/plymouth-openrc-plugin should not check the writability of /run

Bug 374025 - sys-boot/plymouth-openrc-plugin should not check the writability of /run

Summary: sys-boot/plymouth-openrc-plugin should not check the writability of /run

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Amadeusz Żołnowski (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2011-07-04 10:03 UTC by Maciej Piechotka
Modified:	2011-07-11 12:58 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Maciej Piechotka 2011-07-04 10:03:24 UTC

Not every package manager pretends with root access. Therefore checking for writability of /run fails with lowered priviliges when permission is set to:

% ls /run -ld
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 560 Jul  4 10:07 /run


% cave -v
paludis 0.64.1

Comment 1 Sergey Ilinykh 2011-07-05 04:27:09 UTC

I'd say it should not check even existence of this directory!
keepdir /run should be enough

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2011-07-08 19:05:43 UTC

random packages should not be touching /run

handling should be done at runtime, not build time

Comment 3 Amadeusz Żołnowski (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-07-11 12:58:48 UTC

Fixed with 0.1.2.

OK, I'm doing just a check in postinst message if /run is not a directory.

At runtime plugin creates subdirectory "plymouth" under /run if one doesn't exist, but if /run is not present, it quits with error.