Bug#812215: consider spliting systemd-tmpfiles into separate package

[Ondřej Surý]

Hi Michael,

I never bothered to implement more than 'd', but I am happy to
contribute my sysvrc shell snippet I use as replacement for systems
without systemd-tmpfiles installed. 

```
do_tmpfiles() {
    local type path mode user group age argument
    if [ -r "$1" ]; then
        if [ -x /bin/systemd-tmpfiles ]; then
            /bin/systemd-tmpfiles --create "$1"
        else
            while read type path mode user group age argument; do
                case "$type" in
                    d)
                        mkdir -p "$path";
			chmod "$mode" "$path";
                        chown "$user:$group" "$path";
                        ;;
                    \#*)
                        ;;
                    *)
                        log_warning_msg "tmpfile.d type '$type' is not
                        supported yet"
                        ;;
                esac
            done < "$1"
	fi
    else
        log_warning_msg "tmpfiles.d file '$1' doesn't exist or is not
        readable"
    fi
}
```

It should be fairly easy to implement the most common stuff used in
Debian.

Cheers,
-- 
Ondřej Surý <ondrej at sury.org>
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On Sun, Jan 31, 2016, at 01:55, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 23.01.2016 um 06:19 schrieb Josh Triplett:
> > If having tmpfiles.d support across all architectures and init systems
> > sounds appealing, I'd be willing to construct such a package, though I'd
> > want to have co-maintainers who actually run sysvinit and/or non-Linux
> > architectures.  The subset of tmpfiles.d syntax that can easily work on
> > all POSIX systems seems simple enough to write.
> 
> I think we have consensus that tmpfiles suport for non-systemd systems
> should be provided by an alternative implementation. So the question
> would be, which package that implementation should be shipped in.
> 
> We already have an older bug for init-system-helpers [1]. Maybe that
> would indeed be a good place to ship an alternative implementation.
> Be it shell or perl based, or even C.
> 
> Michael
> 
> 
> 
> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=725959
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