On Sun, Dec 14, 2025 at 08:47:37AM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote:
Marc Haber:
On Sat, Dec 13, 2025 at 06:38:15PM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote:
To my knowledge, people use `systemd-tmpfiles` for creating/chown
file system items not shipped in the `.deb`.
And how about systemd-sysusers?
I am not sure what you mean with this question. The debhelper stack
has support for `systemd-sysusers` via `dh_installsysusers`, and the
snippets are aligned with `dh_installtmpfiles` to ensure they are run
in the proper order.
For example, mariadb. This is not a clear example of perfect usage of
adduser, but it creates its user in preinst, then mkdirs /var/lib/mysql
and /var/log/mysql and chowns the directories to that user.
exim does the same in postinst: adduser, install -d /var/log/exim4,
/var/sppol/exim4, /var/spool/exim4/*.
How would those package do their job with plain debhelper,
systemd-sysusers and systemd-tmpfiles? Would those package have to list
their certainly non-temporary data and log directories in tmpfiles.d?
What if those directories need to be filled with some preliminary data
before the daemon can be started?
concrete problem/case you are observing, so I can engage in that
rather than having to guess and ending up solving the problem/case you
did not have. :)
Sorry for being clear.
Greetings
Marc
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