Bug#894510: debhelper: Because it is listing tmpfiles in systemd's only, conf overriding is not working

[Seyeong Kim]

Thanks a lot

Can i get git repo url you mentioned?

On 11 May 2018, 4:09 PM +0900, Niels Thykier <niels at thykier.net>, wrote:
> Michael Biebl:
> > Am 04.05.2018 um 13:47 schrieb Michael Biebl:
> > > Dropping #TMPFILES# means, systemd-tmpfiles will act on all tmpfiles.
> > > This would be a bit like if upgrading rsyslog would restart all system
> > > services (including rsyslog). That doesn't feel right.
> > > So I don't think dropping #TMPFILES# is the right approach.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > One valid use cases this touches though is, that overriding tmpfiles in
> > /etc/tmpfiles.d should be supported. I.e. if there is a
> > /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/dbus.conf and an admin wants to tweak that by
> > shipping a /etc/tmpfiles.d/dbus.conf, I don't think the package should
> > override that.
> > Afaics, this could easily be fixed by only using the name of the .conf
> > file, not the full path, so dh_installsystemd/dh_installinit would have
> > to generate
> > systemd-tmpfiles --create dbus.conf
> > instead of
> > systemd-tmpfiles --create /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/dbus.conf
> >
> > Felipe et al, what do you think?
> >
> > (CC pkg-systemd-maintainers to have more eyes on this)
> >
> > Michael
> >
>
> Hi,
>
> After a short chat with Felipe yesterday, I have updated the debhelper
> tooling (in git master) to generate "systemd-tmpfiles --create
> dbus.conf" instead of "systemd-tmpfiles --create
> /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/dbus.conf". This solves one half of the issue
> (namely that package provided tmpfiles configs could not be overridden
> at all).
>
> On the other part of the issue, I will follow Michael's recommendation
> of keeping #TMPFILES# in the postinst. As I understand it, this
> effectively makes that part "wontfix".
>
> Thanks,
> ~Niels
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