Control: unblock 799782 by -1 Control: tags -1 upstream Control: close -1 On Mon, 28 Sep 2015 20:27:17 +0200 Joachim Breitner <nome...@debian.org> wrote: > Package: systemd > Version: 226-3 > Severity: normal > Control: block 799782 by -1 > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > local-apt-repository ships with the following file: > > $ cat /lib/systemd/system/local-apt-repository.path > [Path] > PathChanged=/srv/local-apt-repository > > [Install] > WantedBy=paths.target > > If a process opens a not-yet-existing file in /srv/local-apt- repository, > starts writing and eventually closes it that systemd would activate the > corresponding service only after the close – at least that is my reading > of systemd.path(5). > > This can be reproduced by installing local-apt-repository, and running > > $ pv -L 100 < .../some.deb > /srv/local-apt-repository/some.deb > > and observing in the journal that dpkg-deb complains about an invalid > file. > > Is the documentation misleading me here, or is there a bug? > > If it is not a bug: Would it be possible to provide the behaviour that > was hoping for here? > > Thanks, > Joachim
It looks like this was worked around a long time ago, and no updates since. We do not patch nor reconfigure path units behaviour downstream, so any issue with them needs to be tested in unstable on the latest version and then reported upstream. -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
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