From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>
To: Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/3] tmpfiles.eclass: Support using on non-Linux systems
Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 12:21:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ0EP43D6Y+LUAZxdxgyqUL_PROkQK=n9H0q95rb7hSb2QE7bQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170502143842.GA22289@linux1>
On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 10:38 AM, William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 09:06:53PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
>> Fix the eclass code to remove the misguided Linux conditionals.
>> The whole purpose of the eclass was to avoid having to implement
>> fallback logic for systems not having service manager tmpfiles.d
>> support. Making it conditional to Linux implied that for non-Linux
>> systems (Prefix, FreeBSD) we would have to implement explicit fallback
>> to create the necessary directories.
>>
>> While systemd (and therefore systemd-tmpfilesd) is indeed
>> Linux-specific, the opentmpfiles implementation should be pretty
>> portable and there is no reason to restrict it to Linux only, or to
>> prevent using it on non-Linux OpenRC (and non-OpenRC) systems.
>
> Opentmpfiles can run right now on non-openrc systems, but it requires a
> linux host; that is why the Linux conditionals are there. We currently support
> selinux and even more specific linux code is coming with the btrfs
> subvolume support.
My Linux system does not support selinux. Other people have Linux
systems which do not support btrfs. tmpfiles still works on such
systems.
What exactly breaks on non-Linux systems?
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-02 16:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-30 19:06 [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/3] tmpfiles.eclass: Support using on non-Linux systems Michał Górny
2017-04-30 19:06 ` [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 2/3] tmpfiles.eclass: Explicit warn on ROOT != / to avoid breakage Michał Górny
2017-04-30 19:06 ` [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 3/3] app-portage/eix: Convert to tmpfiles.eclass (example) Michał Górny
2017-05-02 14:38 ` [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/3] tmpfiles.eclass: Support using on non-Linux systems William Hubbs
2017-05-02 14:56 ` Michał Górny
2017-05-02 16:21 ` Mike Gilbert [this message]
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