On Thu, 12 Jul 2012, Michael Tokarev wrote: > This whole hack is not needed anymore, and /run will > be created in a usual way during install process. > > So this whole trick should be removed.
I agree. Here's the corresponding patch. It would be nice if someone could commit it so that it gets included in the next d-i release. It's needed to have a proper live image for wheezy. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Get the Debian Administrator's Handbook: → http://debian-handbook.info/get/
>From a91bb071ba7b011045aa83d17c6018c311485f51 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Rapha=C3=ABl=20Hertzog?= <hert...@debian.org> Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 16:51:15 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Do not create /var/run and /var/lock directories in /target Nowadays those are supposed to be symlinks and their existence hurts more than helps. In particular, it breaks live-installer which uses tar to extract the content of the live system over /target. At least busybox's tar fails to extract a symlink over a pre-existing directory. Thanks to Rui Bernardo and Michael Tokarev for the investigations. Closes: #652946 --- debian/changelog | 9 +++++++++ finish.d/mount_partitions | 8 -------- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index ec24040..bcb7ef1 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -1,3 +1,12 @@ +partman-target (81) UNRELEASED; urgency=low + + * Do not create /var/run and /var/lock directories in /target. Nowadays + those are supposed to be symlinks and their existence hurts more than + helps. Closes: #652946 + Thanks to Rui Bernardo and Michael Tokarev for the investigations. + + -- Raphaël Hertzog <hert...@debian.org> Thu, 06 Dec 2012 16:45:54 +0100 + partman-target (80) unstable; urgency=low [ Updated translations ] diff --git a/finish.d/mount_partitions b/finish.d/mount_partitions index 9c8499e..8dcbb8a 100755 --- a/finish.d/mount_partitions +++ b/finish.d/mount_partitions @@ -58,14 +58,6 @@ for f in $fstab; do # needed to unmount the partition; currently this is unused unmount_cmd=$($m "$f") if [ "$?" = 0 ]; then - case $2 in - /) - # Create these before /var is mounted, - # so that they can be mounted as tmpfses - mkdir -p /target/var/lock - mkdir -p /target/var/run - ;; - esac continue 2 fi done -- 1.7.10.4
