FHS 3.0: /var/run has moved to /run

[michaelrsweet]

Version: 1.7-feature
CUPS.org User: dilfridge

In Gentoo (and probably other Linux flavours), the content of /var/run has been moved to a separate top-level directory /run (which is usually a tempfs).

Unfortunately, cups does not provide any configure option to modify CUPS_STATEDIR alone (and if I use --localstatedir=/, other stuff also moves from /var to / which should stay where it is).

Please add a configure option to modify only this CUPS_STATEDIR path.

Right now I am using the following patch to locally adapt the sources:

diff -ruN cups-1.6.2.orig/config-scripts/cups-directories.m4 cups-1.6.2/config-scripts/cups-directories.m4
--- cups-1.6.2.orig/config-scripts/cups-directories.m4 2012-10-01 03:55:23.000000000 +0200
+++ cups-1.6.2/config-scripts/cups-directories.m4 2013-04-02 00:11:41.000000000 +0200
@@ -429,7 +429,7 @@
;;
*)
# All others

•           CUPS_STATEDIR="$localstatedir/run/cups"
  

•           CUPS_STATEDIR="/run/cups"
          ;;
  

  esac
  AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(CUPS_STATEDIR, "$CUPS_STATEDIR")

[michaelrsweet]

CUPS.org User: mike

Reassigning as 1.7 RFE...

So has the FHS changed for this or are Linux distributions no longer following the FHS?

[michaelrsweet]

CUPS.org User: dilfridge

As far as I know, this change will be in the next FHS release (3.0). See the FHS specification development trunk, and in particular revision 36.

http:https://bzr.linuxfoundation.org/loggerhead/lsb/devel/fhs-spec/changes

[michaelrsweet]

CUPS.org User: mike

"Beta" versions of FHS 3.0 are posted at:

http:https://www.linuxbase.org/betaspecs/fhs/

Will investigate all usage and add configure directives and suitable defaults as needed...

[michaelrsweet]

CUPS.org User: mike

Fixed in Subversion repository.

Added new --with-rundir configure option to set the transient run-time state directory. Don't forget to also pass --with-domainsocket to relocate the CUPS domain socket, too...