Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1578 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxxx>]

On 11/21/2011 03:29 PM, Ruediger Meier wrote:
> On Monday 21 November 2011, Joachim Schrod wrote:
> > Ruediger Meier wrote:
> > > On Sunday 20 November 2011, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
> > > > in this case it was agreed among all major
> > > > distributions.
> > >
> > > My question was how such agreement happens in practice. I couldn't
> > > find anything about it.
> >
> > It was announced upstream, see http://lwn.net/Articles/436012/
>
> This is Fedora and/or systemd specific only. I'm not using the one nor
> the other and don't consider it being upstream source of openSUSE's
> file system layout.
>
> Quotation of your link above:
> "With this upload Fedora and Suse have already adopted /run now."
>
> So Lennart Poettering just _decided_ _finally_ at Wed, 30 Mar 2011 that
> openSUSE gets /run? Can't believe it.

No, the systemd maintainer at that point of time made the change for 
systemd and told Lennart about it.


> > I'm no openSUSE developer, but AFAIU, the openSUSE maintainer of
> > that package can then decide if the upstream decision is kept or
> > not. Typically, it is.
>
> Such major changes are far beyond the scope of package maintenance. BTW
> typically openSUSE packages differ very much with upstream's idea of
> how to install.
>
>
> cu,
> Rudi

The change to make /var/run as tmpfs was discussed on the packaging 
mailing list:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-packaging/2010-05/msg00018.html

I don't remember that /run was mentioned separately in a similiar way 
but this was part of the introduction of systemd that was discussed 
several times.

Please keep in mind that systemd is also an effort to bring the 
distributions together in some more areas to make packaging easier,

Andreas
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