On Mon, 02 Jan 2012, Axel Beckert wrote: > > I strongly recommend this solution, along with a proper debconf notice. > [...] > > /tmp is a good choice because the next reboot will automatically clean > > up everything (and obviously the old binary will not be needed after > > a reboot). > Thanks for that hint. This sounds better (and especially less messy) > than I thought! :-)
Thank you Axel for your detailed response and IMHO this is indeed close to an ideal (lightweight, self-cleaning, etc) resolution for this scenario. BTW -- what is the take of standards/practices on having /tmp mounted with noexec [1]? I just wondered if that might be worth a check/warning during moving the binary [1] http://serverfault.com/questions/72356/how-useful-is-mounting-tmp-noexec -- =------------------------------------------------------------------= Keep in touch www.onerussian.com Yaroslav Halchenko www.ohloh.net/accounts/yarikoptic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120102212655.gc17...@onerussian.com
