Re: [gentoo-dev] tmpfiles virtual

["Dustin C. Hatch" <admiralnemo@gmail.com>]

On 2016-11-14 23:09, Michał Górny wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Nov 2016 18:23:10 -0600
> William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org> 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.

-- 
♫Dustin