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On Thu, 2019-04-25 at 16:49 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: |
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> On 4/25/19 4:20 PM, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> > Wrong. tmpfiles_process() requires virtual/tmpfiles on any system, |
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> > including daemontools, bare minimal init and whatever. Keeping it |
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> > installed afterwards is a minor side effect, and technical limitation of |
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> > our dependency types (lack of install-depend). |
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> What's wrong? You only need the effect of tmpfiles_process() if you're |
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> running systemd or OpenRC. If the user is running SysV-init and if the |
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> package also installs a SysV-init script, then that init script is going |
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> to have to create any temporary directories it needs, because SysV-init |
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> doesn't know anything about tmpfiles. |
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This isn't about init scripts. This is about arbitrary directories that |
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need to be created at runtime and potentially cleaned up or recreated |
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after reboot, such as cache directories. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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