[arch-general] Improve the filesystem package

[Leonid Isaev]

On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 12:14:21PM +0200, Yamakaky wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I see some possible improvements to the filesystem package to use some of
> the recent improvements to systemd. I don't know if they are already
> planned.
> 
> All the empty directories and the links could be replaced by a tmpfiles.d
> file, like /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/archlinux.conf.

And what happens if my root filesystem is mounted read-only? So, please let's
not allow tmpfiles to touch /etc...

> 
> /etc/{group,gshadow,passwd,shadow} could be removed as the base users and
> groups are already created by the upstream sysusers.d files. The
> arch-specific ones (like bin or daemon) could be created by
> /usr/lib/sysusers.d/archlinux.conf.
> 
> The others /etc/ files could be moved to /usr/share/etc/ and copied as
> needed to /etc using tmpfiles.d files.
> 
> A filesystem.install file could launch systemd-tmpfiles and systemd-sysusers
> to update the local configuration when the package is updated.
> 
> In the end, filesystem would contain only tmpfiles.d and sysusers.d files +
> /usr/share/etc.
> 
> I can make a draft of this package if you want.

And all that assumes that you can execute systemd-sysusers, no?

Cheers,
-- 
Leonid Isaev
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