[Mageia-dev] Adding tmpfiles.d support to packages

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Remco Rijnders at 25/11/12 12:44 did gyre and gimble:
> On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 10:20:21AM +0000, Colin wrote in
> <50ADFC65.8080905 at colin.guthr.ie>:
>> I should write up a wiki page, but here is the details:
> 
> <snip>
> 
>> # create tmpfiles directory
>> install -d -m0755 %{buildroot}%{_prefix}/lib/tmpfiles.d
>> install -m0644 %{SOURCEN}
>> %{buildroot}%{_prefix}/lib/tmpfiles.d/%{name}.conf
>>
>> Make sure it's included in the %files section too:
>> %{_prefix}/lib/tmpfiles.d/*.conf
> 
> Hi Colin,
> 
> Thanks for these instructions. I've updated fail2ban accordingly and am
> now in the process of doing inn.

Awesome thanks :)

> Running rpmlint on the spec file I did
> find that it results in some warnings when following your instructions
> to the letter:
> 
> ./inn.spec:204: W: hardcoded-library-path in %{_prefix}/lib/tmpfiles.d
> 
> ./inn.spec:205: W: hardcoded-library-path in
> %{_prefix}/lib/tmpfiles.d/%{name}.conf
> 
> ./inn.spec:333: W: hardcoded-library-path in
> %{_prefix}/lib/tmpfiles.d/*.conf

Today I've spend some time on this and added a few helper macros.


You can now use:

%{_tmpfilesdir} in place of %{_prefix}/lib/tmpfiles.d

You can also use:

%_tmpfilescreate %{name}

 rather than

systemd-tmpfiles --create %{name}.conf


That'll likely help keep things simpler and avoid a warning or two :)

Oh and you can also just do:

 install -D -p -m 0644 %{SOURCEN} %{buildroot}%{_tmpfilesdir}/%{name}.conf

Rather than creating the folder separately (the -D argument does this
for you). -p isn't important but just preserves the timestamp of the
source file which is mainly cosmetic.

Col



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