[HEADS-UP] Moving /var/run and /var/lock to tmpfs in Rawhide

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 03:11:43AM -0500, Akira TAGOH wrote:
> 
> ----- "Toshio Kuratomi" <a.badger at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> | corner cases:
> | * After installation but before reboot, the application is able to
> | startup
> |   and write to a directory in /var/run and/or /var/lock
> 
> This is the case what I want to know a solution. though no one is giving me an answer for my question yet.
> 
My answer is: just include directories in the %files section as normal.  Do
not %ghost them.

Files may be %ghosted, perhaps even should be %ghosted, but having this
switch to a tmpfs means that the file will be cleaned once the first  reboot
occurs after the file is uninstalled so we can get away without tis.

> | 2) The act of installing the rpm should create the necessary
> | directories.
> | Alternately, the program (or as you say, the init script) can create
> | the
> | necessary directories.  Note that I don't believe that systemd gives
> | you the
> | flexibility to do that sort of thing (there's no "script" in its init
> | stuff)
> | so you'd need a wrapper script for the program itself or write a patch
> | to
> | the program itself to achieve this where the program doesn't create
> | the
> | directory already and if we don't do this from within the rpm
> | payload.
> 
> To get this working on SELinux, are we presuming that restorecond is running on the system or does the package maintainer need to take care of running restorecon manually in the script or the program?
> 
I thought lennart mentioned something about selinux and tmpfiles.d defined
directories but I could be misremembering.
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> Akira TAGOH
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