On Tue, 15 Nov 2016 12:22:42 -0600 William Hubbs <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 12:11:52PM -0500, Mike Gilbert wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 12:09 AM, Michał Górny <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 14 Nov 2016 18:23:10 -0600 > > > William Hubbs <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > >> Hi all, > > >> > > >> I have been working on splitting the tmpfiles functionality out of > > >> OpenRC [1], and I believe the new package is about to enter the tree. > > >> > > >> OpenRC itself doesn't need this package to boot since it doesn't use > > >> tmpfiles.d files, but other software does need it. > > >> > > >> This brings up a couple of questions. > > >> > > >> Since we now will have two different ways to process tmpfiles, is > > >> virtual/tmpfiles appropriate, with the default being opentmpfiles? > > > > > > Yes. Virtual will allow us to control list of supported implementations > > > easily. We can also use it to control different versions of tmpfiles > > > format. > > > > > >> Once opentmpfiles is in the tree and stable, should virtual/tmpfiles > > >> be added to @system, or should we have the packages that need it rdepend > > >> on it directly? I tend to lean toward the second option. > > > > > > We will RDEPEND on it via tmpfiles.eclass. I think floppym has a draft > > > somewhere. > > > > Said draft is on github. It is a work-in-progress that I have not > > touched for a few months. > > > > https://github.com/floppym/gentoo/blob/tmpfiles-eclass/eclass/tmpfiles.eclass > > I like a lot of it, but I'll bring it to the list with a couple of > changes. Please send me your changes for early review since I was planning to do a few changes as well ;-). -- Best regards, Michał Górny <http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>
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