On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: >>> And when are the files and dirs created? Only when the system is >>> booted? >> >> Yes. >> >>> But then after installing an package that requires files to be created >>> by tmpfiles.d the system needs to be rebooted before it can be used. Or >>> will rpm call something that parses the appropriate tmpfiles.d file when >>> the package is installed / updated? >> >> Hmm, it has been suggested that we should make it possible to create >> these dirs in the .spec files by invoking the systemd-tmpfiles tool >> directly from the scriptlets. I guess we should add a nice interface for >> that. In the meantime it should be sufficient to simply place th right >> "mkdir -p -m ..." in the scriptlet. Of course it would be desirable if >> we have a single place where the dirs to create are encoded. >> > A question I'd have when looking over a proposed packaging guideline would > be: why %ghost the directories? Why not include the directories as normal > but add the tmpfiles.d step in addition?
So with all of this, as a package maintainer, I will have to make sure the dirs exist in the init scripts anyway. In which case one can wonder why bothering with tmpfiles.d files (or %ghost). Just to cleanup a volatile directory in case a package is uninstalled after start? Paul -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
