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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. In case that draft uses DEPEND, it just occurred to me that |
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we need RDEPEND for pkg_postinst(). |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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<http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/> |
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