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On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 11:09 AM Thomas Deutschmann <whissi@g.o> wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> most packages are putting acct-{user,group}/* dependencies into RDEPEND. |
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> What about packages using tmpfiles eclass and installing tmpfiles which |
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> will make use of acct-{user,group}/* depedencies? |
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> I.e. dev-db/mysql-init-scripts will install |
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> "/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/mysql.conf" with the following content: |
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> > d /var/run/mysqld 0755 mysql mysql - |
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> The package is a requirement for all |
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> dev-db/{mysql,mariadb,percona-server} packages because it will provide |
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> runscript/services. |
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> To be able to start your chosen database server right after |
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> installation, we trigger tmpfiles service in pkg_postinst via |
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> tmpfiles_process(). |
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> Therefore, mysql user and group provided by acct-{user,group}/mysql must |
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> be merged *before* tmpfiles_process() will be called or |
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> "/var/run/mysqld" will be created as root:root which will prevent your |
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> favorite database server to start. |
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> However, devmanual |
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> (https://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/dependencies/) says: |
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> > Items which are in RDEPEND but not DEPEND could in theory be merged |
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> > after the target package. Portage does not currently do this. |
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> So don't we have a conceptual problem here and are just lucky that |
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> current used PMs don't do at the moment what specification will allow |
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> them to do? |
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> Moving to (B)DEPEND will address the problem for non-binary package |
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> users only. |
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There is an open bug to address this in a future EAPI. |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/660306 |
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Until then, putting the deps in RDEPEND is the best we can do. |
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