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Bug 830306

Summary: [TRACKER] Packages that use /var/run instead of /run
Product: Quality Assurance Reporter: Mike Gilbert <floppym>
Component: TrackersAssignee: Gentoo Quality Assurance Team <qa>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: normal CC: bertrand, jstein
Priority: Normal Keywords: Tracker
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Bug Depends on: 685310, 685318, 685320, 476242, 676046, 685296, 685298, 685300, 685302, 685304, 685306, 685308, 685314, 685316, 685322, 685324, 685326, 685328, 691902, 709780    
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Description Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev 2021-12-30 16:58:05 UTC
Modern Linux systems mount /run as a tmpfs and symlink /var/run -> /run for backward compatibility.

Packages should be updated to use /run directly instead of relying on the symlink.

This bug tracks packages that have yet to be updated.