Bug 934513 – sys-apps/systemd-utils-256: systemd-tmpfiles will remove /home on --purge

• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description MaratIK 2024-06-18 14:24:30 UTC]

It is found that "systemd-tmpfiles --purge" will delete /home in systemd 256.

See https://mathstodon.xyz/@bremner/112615591101488528

Reproducible: Didn't try

[Comment 1 Sam James 2024-06-18 15:57:54 UTC]

While I think it's a bit silly that it exists, it's only a bug in that "--purge does what it's documented to do, but has no "are you sure?" question". There's a lot of destructive commands you can run. It's a new option.

The question is therefore if we want to just delete the /home tmpfiles entry to avoid the risk of people running it and not realising what it does.

[Comment 2 Sam James 2024-06-18 16:03:09 UTC]

I think we could probably delete it at least for systemd-utils, given it's unlikely people will be doing the "blank system" tmpfiles usecase there.

[Comment 3 Sam James 2024-06-18 16:04:05 UTC]

Lennart's https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/33383 PR is queued for backporting to 256, so I don't think we need to do anything here (256 isn't even packaged yet).

[Comment 4 Mike Gilbert 2024-06-18 16:06:53 UTC]

I will make a note to check for that commit when I get around to packaging 256.x.