Bug#986886: systemd: apt-get install systemd sid systemd invalid option --prefix

[Michael Biebl]

Control: reassign -1 opentmpfiles

Am 15.04.2021 um 01:43 schrieb Lorenzo:
> Control: reassign -1 systemd
> Control: found -1 247.3-5
> Control: retitle 986886 systemd-tmpfiles(8) doc --prefix incomplete
> 
> 
> On Tue, 13 Apr 2021 17:22:19 +0200 Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> Am 13.04.2021 um 16:20 schrieb robert.royer at adsbnetwork.com:
>>> Do you have opentmpfiles installed?
>>> opentmpfiles  0.3.1-1
>>>
>>
>> Very bad idea. Please uninstall it and your problem will be fixed.
> 
> I have a RFS on mentors that adds a Conflict with systemd so that this
> will be no longer a concern.

Please also remove the Provide and dpkg-divert.

> 
>> I'm going to reassign this to opentmpfiles. It should not provide
>> systemd-tmpfiles as long as it is not compatible with it.
>> Bumping to RC accordingly. This way users might have a chance to be
>> warned about installing this package.
> 
> However systemd-tmpfiles(8) says:
>   --prefix=path
> 
> while in systemd postinst you are calling as
> 
> if mountpoint -q /proc; then
>          systemd-tmpfiles --create --prefix /var/log/journal
> fi
> 
> This is not a bug in opentmpfiles until systemd does not document
> that the prefix option can be used as in the above snippet.
> 
> So I'm reassigning to systemd

Nice try. Re-assigning back. Of course this is a bug in opentmpfiles.
It pretends to be comptabible with systemd-tmpfiles but isn't.
I don't appreciate this bts ping pong.


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