[OE-core] RFC: meta-ro-rootfs approach and volatiles vs tmpfiles.d

[Chris Larson]

On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Otavio Salvador <otavio at ossystems.com.br>wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Chris Larson <clarson at kergoth.com> wrote:
> ...
> > The standalone systemd-tmpfiles recipe I've created has a fairly small
> set
> > of dependencies: intltool-native, dbus, libcap. Given this, I'd like to
> > propose transitioning away from populate-volatiles to systemd-tmpfiles,
> even
> > for non-systemd images. I think that the update-tmpfiles shell script
> may be
> > of use in a transition, but before we even begin discussing a transition
> > path, I'd like to request comments on the notion of moving to it at all.
>
> I think it shouldn't be hard to make an C app or script which could
> parse systemd-tmpfiles and use this for non-systemd systems. What do
> you think?
>

I considered this too, but systemd-tmpfiles supports quite a lot more than
volatiles, for example restoring selinux labels. Maybe that sounds fun to
you, but it sounded like more trouble than it was worth to me, given
systemd-tmpfiles can be used without systemd :) But yes, it's definitely
another option to consider.
-- 
Christopher Larson
clarson at kergoth dot com
Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
Maintainer - Tslib
Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics
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