Bug 487598

Summary:	tmpfiles.d: Configuration files are in the wrong path
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Patrick Lauer <patrick>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	OpenRC Team <openrc>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	normal	CC:	qa
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/tmpfiles.d.html
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Patrick Lauer gentoo-dev

2013-10-11 05:37:25 UTC

Going from /etc/init.d/tmpfiles.dev which calls /lib64/rc/sh/tmpfiles.sh ...

tmpfiles_dirs='/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/ /etc/tmpfiles.d/ /run/tmpfiles.d/'

Looking at /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/:

cyrus-sasl.conf      fetchmail.conf       lvm2.conf            mdadm.conf           mysql.conf           postgresql-9.3.conf  samba.conf


Now looking at FHS:
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/fhs-4.7.html
Quote:
"/usr/lib includes object files, libraries, and internal binaries that are not intended to be executed directly by users or shell scripts."

Since these files are obviously configuration they must be moved to /etc.

Comment 1 Robin Johnson archtester

2013-10-11 07:57:05 UTC

Blame systemd for violating FHS.
http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/tmpfiles.d.html

Comment 2 William Hubbs gentoo-dev

2013-10-11 16:44:47 UTC

Yes, they are configuration files, but they are not meant to be edited
by admins. That is why they are in /usr/lib.

This is similar to how udev rules work. packages install rules that are
not meant to be edited in /lib/udev/rules.d.