[19:54:19] <mgorny> guys, i was thinking: since openrc reimplements tmpfiles.d, maybe it'd be reasonable to split it into a separate package? [19:54:57] <mgorny> i'm thinking of the systemd_tmpfiles_create function in systemd.eclass specifically [19:55:21] <mgorny> if we modify it to support both systemd and openrc variants, it will still be limited to people having either installed [19:55:43] <mgorny> (and therefore we will miss people that have neither) [19:56:05] <mgorny> but if openrc-tmpfiles was a completely split package, i don't it much of harm to DEPEND on it everywhere [03:48:01] <perfinion> that sounds reasonable [03:48:19] <perfinion> the tmpfiles shell script is pretty simple so having it around isnt bad yeah I don't think others have noticed that, so opening a bug instead. The idea is to have reliable tmpfiles.d support for ebuilds without having to implement fallbacks.
(In reply to Michał Górny from comment #0) > [19:54:19] <mgorny> guys, i was thinking: since openrc reimplements > tmpfiles.d, maybe it'd be reasonable to split it into a separate package? It might be. Longterm I want to rewrite this in C, because I think that would be better than the shell script we have. Also, separating this functionality would mean there could be a separate eclass that handles tmpfiles.
(In reply to William Hubbs from comment #1) > (In reply to Michał Górny from comment #0) > > [19:54:19] <mgorny> guys, i was thinking: since openrc reimplements > > tmpfiles.d, maybe it'd be reasonable to split it into a separate package? > > It might be. Longterm I want to rewrite this in C, because I think that > would be better than the shell script we have. But could we split this before the rewrite, please? ;-) > Also, separating this functionality would mean there could be a separate > eclass that handles tmpfiles. That was exactly my idea. Add a new eclass that would DEPEND on either of tmpfiles implementations and handle using them.
Just a quick update to this bug, tmpfiles.sh uses checkpath which is an openrc helper, so removing it from OpenRC will require that I re-implement checkpath either in shell or C.
There is now a live ebuild for https://github.com/openrc/tmpfiles in the tree. I will keep this open until openrc has been reworked to use it instead of the internal tmpfiles.sh script.
This has been renamed to https://github.com/openrc/opentmpfiles per a suggestion from mgorny. I will create a new live ebuild and remove the previous one. I don't think a pkgmove is necessary since this isn't an officially released package yet, but let me know if I'm wrong.
https://github.com/openrc/openrc/commit/e0ac661 This is done in OpenRC 0.23.
