On Sun, 17 Sep 2023 12:58:00 +0200 Arsen Arsenović <ar...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Alexe Stefan <stefanalex...@gmail.com> writes: > > > One is written in shell, the other is written in c.(no problems > > here) > > Not that implementation language matters. > > > One is not part of systemd, the other is. > > Both work fine without systemd, but the systemd implementation also > happens not to be unmaintained and happens to be more complete. Here are some other implementations I have found, but I am not sure if they are drop-in replacements or not. https://github.com/eweOS/pawprint https://github.com/juur/tmpfilesd > > > How are they identical. > > The last rites message does not say that opentmpfiles and > systemd-tmpfiles are identical. That'd do a disservice to the > actually complete, unmaintained, and (currently) non-CVE-affected > implementation in systemd. > > > I use this on my raspi server, works fine. > > 'WOMM' is a fairly terrible measure. > > > Gentoo really became a systemd distro, further restricting choice by > > the day. > > [ignoring this nonsensical statement, notice put here for clarity] > > > Gentoo devs aren't obliged to maintain software you like to use. > systemd-utils[tmpfiles] works on all Gentoo systems, including > non-systemd ones. Until that changes (which is unlikely), I doubt > there will be much interest in maintaining a fork from inside Gentoo. > > Please take up opentmpfiles maintenance. You have > https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/689954cc7fd55402dc4c82aa0ac70efb > to address, and probably some other issues. See > https://github.com/OpenRC/opentmpfiles/issues/19 for context. > > The message above implies that a rewrite in C is necessary. > > This should be rather easy. The systemd implementation is only ~4k > LoC (excluding shared code), so I imagine that a complete > reimplementation should be far less than 10k. Since this is fairly > elementary stuff, it should be possible to finish in a weekends time. > > Submit a PR to re-add opentmpfiles after you're done. > > Looking forward to reviewing your contributions upstream. Have a > lovely day :-)
