Bug#904079: systemd: tmpfiles: cleaning up /tmp at boot breaks things

2018-07-19 Thread Arnaud Rebillout
On 07/20/2018 11:41 AM, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 10:51:14AM +0700, Arnaud Rebillout wrote: > [...] >> Just my two cents: I find this behavior a bit fragile. It means that an >> application can't reliably use /tmp during boot time. >> >> How do we know which application

Bug#904079: systemd: tmpfiles: cleaning up /tmp at boot breaks things

2018-07-19 Thread Andreas Henriksson
On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 10:51:14AM +0700, Arnaud Rebillout wrote: [...] > Just my two cents: I find this behavior a bit fragile. It means that an > application can't reliably use /tmp during boot time. > > How do we know which application needs to create a temporary file when > they're started?

Bug#904079: systemd: tmpfiles: cleaning up /tmp at boot breaks things

2018-07-19 Thread Arnaud Rebillout
> In this case console-setup just needs to add the proper After= directive. > Why this hasn't happened yet is unclear to me. Please poke the > console-setup maintainer about this. Done, thanks for the quick reply. > /tmp has been traditionally cleaned up during (early) boot in Debian. > This has

Bug#904079: systemd: tmpfiles: cleaning up /tmp at boot breaks things

2018-07-19 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 19.07.2018 um 11:47 schrieb Arnaud Rebillout: > Package: systemd > Version: 239-5 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > At the moment Debian carries a patch against /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf > This patch sets the type for `/tmp` to `D`, causing the content of the > directory to be

Bug#904079: systemd: tmpfiles: cleaning up /tmp at boot breaks things

2018-07-19 Thread Arnaud Rebillout
Package: systemd Version: 239-5 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, At the moment Debian carries a patch against /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf This patch sets the type for `/tmp` to `D`, causing the content of the directory to be removed when systemd-tmpfiles is invoked with `--remove`. See man