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From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] PSA: switching default tmpfiles virtual provider
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2020 21:51:00
Message-Id: X8QXuQFgSkc+2aVP@linux1.home
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] PSA: switching default tmpfiles virtual provider by Piotr Karbowski
1 On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 07:55:33AM +0100, Piotr Karbowski wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > On 25/11/2020 22.57, Georgy Yakovlev wrote:
5 > > systemd-tmpfiles does not depend on any systemd-isms, does not need dbus,
6 > > and is just a drop-in replacement, the only step needed is to emerge the
7 > > package.
8 > > it's a simple single binary + manpage, binary links to libacl and couple other
9 > > system libs.
10 >
11 > Can confirm that systemd-tmpfiles works fine on OpenRC systems. Been
12 > using it since end of October.
13 >
14 > Two things that are different in terms of interface to opentmpfiles is
15 > that systemd-tmpfiles does not have --dry-run runtime option, and it
16 > will complain if any /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/*.conf uses /var/run instead of
17 > /run, but that's just an warning.
18
19 Also, have we tested this on musl systems?
20
21 My plan is to take the tmpfiles code from systemd, like eudev and elogin
22 have done, and rewrite it to not use the systemd libraries so it will be
23 more portable.
24
25 Once this happens, I'll probably switch the provider back to
26 opentmpfiles.
27
28 William

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Re: [gentoo-dev] PSA: switching default tmpfiles virtual provider Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>