Re: [gentoo-dev] tmpfiles virtual

[Rich Freeman]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 10:49 AM, Dustin C. Hatch <admiralnemo@×××××.com> wrote:
> On 2016-11-14 23:09, Michał Górny wrote:
>> On Mon, 14 Nov 2016 18:23:10 -0600
>> William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I have been working on splitting the tmpfiles functionality out of
>>> OpenRC [1], and I believe the new package is about to enter the tree.
>>>
>>> OpenRC itself doesn't need this package to boot since it doesn't use
>>> tmpfiles.d files, but other software does need it.
>>>
>>> This brings up a couple of questions.
>>>
>>> Since we now will have two different ways to process tmpfiles, is
>>> virtual/tmpfiles appropriate, with the default being opentmpfiles?
>>
>> Yes. Virtual will allow us to control list of supported implementations
>> easily. We can also use it to control different versions of tmpfiles
>> format.
>>
>>> Once opentmpfiles is in the tree and stable, should virtual/tmpfiles
>>> be added to @system, or should we have the packages that need it rdepend
>>> on it directly? I tend to lean toward the second option.
>>
>> We will RDEPEND on it via tmpfiles.eclass. I think floppym has a draft
>> somewhere. In case that draft uses DEPEND, it just occurred to me that
>> we need RDEPEND for pkg_postinst().
>>
>
> What about administrator-specified temporary files in /etc/tmpfiles.d?
> It would be rather unfortunate to have stuff suddenly stop working
> because an OpenRC got updated and stopped creating these temporary files.
>

Does it create them today?  I thought this was a new feature addition.
If it does then news should cover that situation, and the admin can
just add either the virtual or the preferred implementation to their
@world.

-- 
Rich