[arch-general] Improve the filesystem package

Doug Newgard scimmia at archlinux.info
Fri Aug 1 13:27:00 EDT 2014


On 2014-08-01 12:09, Yamakaky wrote:
>> And what happens if my root filesystem is mounted read-only? So, 
>> please let's
>> not allow tmpfiles to touch /etc...
> 
> That's an interesting question, I don't know the answer. I think it
> will fail because ignoring the error would be worse for most of the
> cases.
> 
>> And all that assumes that you can execute systemd-sysusers, no?
> 
> systemd is the only init officially supported and partial updates are
> not supported so I think we can assume it will be available with this
> new version of the package.
> 
> 
> After thinking, maybe removing the dirs from the package is not a so
> good idea. It reminds me the /usr/bin merge, which doesn't seem to be
> possible with tmpfiles.d. However, systemd-sysusers seems to be a good
> idea, especially for package creation. And stateless boot is cool.

Stateless boot is cool for embedded appliances, not so much for 
desktop/server installations.


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