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From: Muvattupuzha

Registered: 2018-01-24

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Is "opentmpfiles" for openRC a useful package?

I was going through openRC wiki and saw this package - https://github.com/openrc/opentmpfiles which is also packed for Debian in testing & sid repositories. Anybody using it.

Utility for handling systemd-style tmpfiles.d settings for systems booting openrc

Lorenzo

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Registered: 2020-03-03

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Re: Is "opentmpfiles" for openRC a useful package?

Hi,

For now no, in future will be probably needed to avoid systemd lockin on certain Debian packages.
There is a commit [1] recently merged (but not yet uploaded to Debian archives) that makes opetmpfiles a dropin replacement to systemd-tmpfiles, so each package that has a dependency on systemd because of tmpfiles can use tmpfiles instead of systemd, if someone convince the maintainer of such package to change the dependency from 'systemd' to  ' systemd | systemd-tmpfiles '.
Only example for now is the php7.x-fpm package that need a rebuild on Devuan right now, but will be installable once the new version of opentmpfiles will be uploaded.
Same goes for opensysusers package.

Regards,
Lorenzo

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/debian/opentmp … c0948a0974

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From: Muvattupuzha

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Re: Is "opentmpfiles" for openRC a useful package?

Explained well @Lorenzo. Thanks.