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On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 12:11:52PM -0500, Mike Gilbert wrote: |
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> On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 12:09 AM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> > On Mon, 14 Nov 2016 18:23:10 -0600 |
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> > William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote: |
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> >> Hi all, |
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> >> I have been working on splitting the tmpfiles functionality out of |
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> >> OpenRC [1], and I believe the new package is about to enter the tree. |
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> >> OpenRC itself doesn't need this package to boot since it doesn't use |
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> >> tmpfiles.d files, but other software does need it. |
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> >> This brings up a couple of questions. |
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> >> Since we now will have two different ways to process tmpfiles, is |
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> >> virtual/tmpfiles appropriate, with the default being opentmpfiles? |
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> > Yes. Virtual will allow us to control list of supported implementations |
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> > easily. We can also use it to control different versions of tmpfiles |
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> > format. |
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> >> Once opentmpfiles is in the tree and stable, should virtual/tmpfiles |
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> >> be added to @system, or should we have the packages that need it rdepend |
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> >> on it directly? I tend to lean toward the second option. |
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> > We will RDEPEND on it via tmpfiles.eclass. I think floppym has a draft |
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> > somewhere. |
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> Said draft is on github. It is a work-in-progress that I have not |
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> touched for a few months. |
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> https://github.com/floppym/gentoo/blob/tmpfiles-eclass/eclass/tmpfiles.eclass |
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I like a lot of it, but I'll bring it to the list with a couple of |
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changes. |
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Thanks, |
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William |