Libguestfs - Feb 2014 - Re: [PATCH] appliance/init: provide a symlink /var/lock

Provide /var/lock as symlink to /run/lock, as it might be used by
applications.
---
 appliance/init | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/appliance/init b/appliance/init
index b25ea26..aac3f5a 100755
--- a/appliance/init
+++ b/appliance/init
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ mount -t sysfs /sys /sys
 mkdir -p /run
 mount -t tmpfs -o "nosuid,size=20%,mode=0755" tmpfs /run
 mkdir -p /run/lock
+ln -s ../run/lock /var/lock
 
 # devtmpfs is required since udev 176
 mount -t devtmpfs /dev /dev
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1.8.3.1

On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 11:43:51AM +0100, Pino Toscano
wrote:
> Provide /var/lock as symlink to /run/lock, as it might be used by
> applications.
> ---
>  appliance/init | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/appliance/init b/appliance/init
> index b25ea26..aac3f5a 100755
> --- a/appliance/init
> +++ b/appliance/init
> @@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ mount -t sysfs /sys /sys
>  mkdir -p /run
>  mount -t tmpfs -o "nosuid,size=20%,mode=0755" tmpfs /run
>  mkdir -p /run/lock
> +ln -s ../run/lock /var/lock
Do we need the .. in that path?  It's probably better to have it as a
symlink to the absolute path.

ACK.

Rich.

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On Wednesday 05 February 2014 10:56:23 Richard W.M. Jones
wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 11:43:51AM +0100, Pino Toscano wrote:
> > Provide /var/lock as symlink to /run/lock, as it might be used by
> > applications.
> > ---
> > 
> >  appliance/init | 1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/appliance/init b/appliance/init
> > index b25ea26..aac3f5a 100755
> > --- a/appliance/init
> > +++ b/appliance/init
> > @@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ mount -t sysfs /sys /sys
> > 
> >  mkdir -p /run
> >  mount -t tmpfs -o "nosuid,size=20%,mode=0755" tmpfs /run
> >  mkdir -p /run/lock
> > 
> > +ln -s ../run/lock /var/lock
> 
> Do we need the .. in that path?  It's probably better to have it as a
> symlink to the absolute path.
I saw other two symlinks in /var being relative ones, i.e.
  mail -> spool/mail
  run -> ../run
so I followed them.

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Pino Toscano