Bug 492432

Summary:	portage should disallow or warn on installing to /run and /var/run
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Ben Kohler <bkohler>
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	bkohler
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Ben Kohler gentoo-dev

2013-11-24 15:21:16 UTC

On newer systems, /run lives on tmpfs and /var/run is a symlink to the same place, so ebuilds should not be installing anything there.  The packages immediately become "damaged" after a reboot. Some example offenders:

# qcheck cups gdm mariadb wpa_supplicant
Checking dev-db/mariadb-5.5.32 ...
 AFK: /var/run/mysqld/.keep_dev-db_mariadb-0
  * 650 out of 651 files are good
Checking gnome-base/gdm-3.8.4-r3 ...
 AFK: /run/gdm/greeter
  * 167 out of 168 files are good
Checking net-print/cups-1.7.0 ...
 AFK: /var/spool/cups/tmp/.keep_net-print_cups-0
  * 464 out of 465 files are good
Checking net-wireless/wpa_supplicant-2.0-r2 ...
 AFK: /var/run/wpa_supplicant
 AFK: /var/run/wpa_supplicant/.keep_net-wireless_wpa_supplicant-0
  * 51 out of 53 files are good
#

Comment 1 Ben Kohler gentoo-dev

2013-12-02 21:16:31 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 493154 ***