On Mon, Jul 13, 2026 at 09:29:26AM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Mon, 13 Jul 2026 at 00:17:51 +0200, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > > Yes. a minbase install currently only has passwd's tmpfiles.d > > snippet. Note that it currently(?) is used only to clean up files on > > boot, and thus not essential to the operation of passwd after > > initial installation. > > At the moment dh_installtmpfiles doesn't/can't distinguish between the > common case of tmpfiles.d snippets that (might) create things (cases 1 and 2 > in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1141909#12, for example > lines starting f, w, d, L) and the less common case of snippets that only > configure cleanup (cases 3 and 4 in the same message, for example e, r, R). > Instead it assumes that any tmpfiles.d snippet might do both. > > Cases 1 and 2 can be functionally necessary, so in general will need a > dependency, but cases 3 and 4 are merely a nice-to-have cleanup, so I don't > think they would merit a dependency (if systemd-tmpfiles was gracefully > skipped if not present).
passwd is an example where lockfiles are removed during boot, tmpfiles.d(5) contains examples for removing pid and cache files during boot. > smcv cu Adrian
