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On Sun, 2021-07-11 at 15:53 +0200, Thomas Deutschmann wrote: |
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> Furthermore, tmpfiles.d settings are only supposed for creation, |
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> deletion and cleaning of volatile and temporary files. Any package which |
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> will install tmpfiles.d settings which will create files in persistent |
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> locations should be treated like a bug in the package itself (for Gentoo |
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> packagers for example we have keepdir [3] function). |
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Not crucial to your main point, but packages that use keepdir under |
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/var/cache (which is persistent) get prodded to use tmpfiles instead: |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/692736 |
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