492432 – portage should disallow or warn on installing to /run and /var/run

Bug 492432 - portage should disallow or warn on installing to /run and /var/run

Summary: portage should disallow or warn on installing to /run and /var/run

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 493154

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Reported:	2013-11-24 15:21 UTC by Ben Kohler
Modified:	2013-12-02 21:16 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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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
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Comment 1 Ben Kohler gentoo-dev

2013-12-02 21:16:31 UTC


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