[systemd-devel] [RFC/PATCH] tmpfiles: implement --transform=rpm

[Lennart Poettering]

On Sun, 02.03.14 15:38, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek (zbyszek at in.waw.pl) wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 06:14:58AM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 3:06 AM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
> > <zbyszek at in.waw.pl> wrote:
> > > +               "     --transform=rpm       Create files list suitable for RPM %%files section\n"
> > 
> > Hmm, can't we maybe come up with something that isn't specific to rpm
> > or dpkg, something that is easily parsed but not bound to the
> > internals of the format of the files?
> > 
> > It sounds like the-wrong-way-around to encode packaging formats into
> > high-level systemd tools. In the end, both formats are really a blast
> > from the past, and represent the status quo, but are surely not the
> > future of how packaging of of a modern Linux system should look like,
> > so it might be nicer to make it generic?
> 
> Something like this would certainly work too:
> output from systemd-tmpfiles would be just
> /some/file
> /some/dir/
> ...
> 
> and it would be used as
> 
> %install
> systemd-tmpfiles --transform=list ... | sed 's|.*/$|%dir \0|;
> s|^/|%ghost /;' > .tmpfiles.list

This could even be turned into a shell read loop I figure... I do like
the general concept.

> This makes the "consumer" side slightly more complex, but I guess we could
> wrap this is in a macro too.

I am pretty sure that whatever we end up adding here, it should come
with an RPM macro from day 1, so that we have some freedom to change
around later on should we need it.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat