Replace opentmpfiles with tmpfilesd?

[orbea]

Maybe it would be a good idea to offer tmpfilesd? opentmpfiles is not maintained and tmpfilesd offers all of the same options that appear to be used in the Gentoo init.

https://github.com/juur/tmpfilesd

$ ./tmpfilesd -h
Usage: tmpfilesd [OPTIONS]... [CONFIGURATION FILE]...
Manage tmpfiles entries

  -h, --help                 show help
      --version              show version number
      --create               create or write to files
      --clean                clean up files or folders
      --remove               remove directories or filse
      --boot                 also execute lines with a !
      --prefix=PATH          only apply rules with a matching path
      --exclude-prefix=PATH  ignores rules with paths that match
      --root=ROOT            all paths including config will be prefixed

# grep -r systemd-tmpfiles
init.d/systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev:  systemd-tmpfiles --prefix=/dev --create --boot
init.d/systemd-tmpfiles-setup:  systemd-tmpfiles --create --remove --boot --exclude-prefix=/dev
cron.daily/systemd-tmpfiles-clean:exec ionice -c idle -t systemd-tmpfiles --clean

[KenjiBrown]

Can you try this ebuild? https://github.com/KenjiBrown/without-systemd/blob/master/sys-apps/tmpfilesd/tmpfilesd-9999.ebuild

[orbea]

I'm getting these QA Notices.

* QA Notice: The ebuild is installing to one or more unexpected paths:
 * 
 *   /tmpfilesd-clean
 * 
 * Please fix the ebuild to use correct FHS/Gentoo policy paths.
 * QA Notice: package is installing tmpfiles without inheriting tmpfiles.eclass!
 * Packages must inherit tmpfiles.eclass then call tmpfiles_process in pkg_postinst.

The systemd-utils ebuild does:

exeinto /etc/cron.daily
doexe "${FILESDIR}"/systemd-tmpfiles-clean

You may also want to have it install /bin/tmpfilesd instead of /usr/bin/tmpfilesd to match /bin/systemd-tmpfiles from systemd-utils.

I am unsure about the tmpfiles.eclass QA Notice, I don't see how systemd-utils handles it?

[KenjiBrown]

tmpfilesd-clean should install in /etc/cron.daily Fixed.

[KenjiBrown]

Install tmpfilesd in /bin/tmpfilesd should be changed in Makefile.in but I don't know how. We should better ask upstream.

[orbea]

Why not just pass --bindir="${EPREFIX}"/bin to configure?

[KenjiBrown]

New ebuild passes --bindir="${EPREFIX}"/bin to configure I have also added support for tmpfiles eclass to fix other warnings. Can you try the ebuild?

[orbea]

Yes, seems better on my end.

For reference here is the contents of systemd-utils:

/bin
/bin/systemd-tmpfiles
/etc
/etc/cron.daily
/etc/cron.daily/systemd-tmpfiles-clean
/etc/init.d
/etc/init.d/systemd-tmpfiles-setup
/etc/init.d/systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev
/usr
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/etc.conf
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/legacy.conf
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/static-nodes-permissions.conf
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/var.conf
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/x11.conf
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/systemd-utils-254.5-r1
/usr/share/doc/systemd-utils-254.5-r1/NEWS.gz
/usr/share/doc/systemd-utils-254.5-r1/README.gz
/usr/share/doc/systemd-utils-254.5-r1/README.md.gz
/usr/share/doc/systemd-utils-254.5-r1/TODO.gz
/usr/share/man
/usr/share/man/man5
/usr/share/man/man5/tmpfiles.d.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8
/usr/share/man/man8/systemd-tmpfiles.8.gz
/usr/share/zsh
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_systemd-tmpfiles

compared with tmpfilesd:

/bin
/bin/tmpfilesd
/etc
/etc/conf.d
/etc/conf.d/tmpfilesd-dev
/etc/conf.d/tmpfilesd-setup
/etc/cron.daily
/etc/cron.daily/tmpfilesd-clean
/etc/init.d
/etc/init.d/tmpfilesd-dev
/etc/init.d/tmpfilesd-setup
/usr
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/etc.conf
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/legacy.conf
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/sap.conf
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/var.conf
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/x11.conf
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/tmpfilesd-9999
/usr/share/doc/tmpfilesd-9999/README.md.gz
/usr/share/man
/usr/share/man/man8
/usr/share/man/man8/tmpfilesd.8.gz

What is the reason for skipping systemd-nologin.conf, systemd.conf and tmp.conf? systemd-utils does provide tmp.conf even without systemd, but I am not sure its important to copy that for tmpfilesd?

[KenjiBrown]

These files are useless unless systemd is enabled. They might be set to be installed with USE=systemd

[KenjiBrown]

I will be watching for upstream to tag a release for keywording a release ebuild.

[orbea]

I made an issue for upstream asking for a release tag.

https://github.com/juur/tmpfilesd/issues/4

[orbea]

Upstream kindly made a release tag!

https://github.com/juur/tmpfilesd/releases/tag/v0.1.0

[orbea]

In the 9999 version there have been changes which removed most of the conf files.

https://github.com/juur/tmpfilesd/tree/56cac272e1beb3dd72b345f82439ff519c29e99c/misc/tmpfiles-d

[KenjiBrown]

fixed 9999 ebuild. Also added ebuilds for 0.1.0, 0.1.1 and 0.1.2 Release ebuilds are ~keyworded. I would like to know your opinion about stabilizing 0.1.2 so It can be elegible to satisfy virtual/tmpfiles.