[systemd-devel] [PATCH] networkd: disable tmpfiles and sysusers bits associated with networkd

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fri, 21.11.14 17:07, Łukasz Stelmach (l.stelmach at samsung.com) wrote:

> On a system configured without networkd and sysusers there still needs
> to be the unnecessary systemd-network user, otherwise systemd-tmpfiles
> fails to start.
> 
> Move information associated with networkd in tmpfiles.d and sysusers.d
> to separate files. Do not install it if netwrorkd is not enabled.

In principle looks OK, but I'd prefer if we would write this out with
m4 (see etc.conf.m4) and keep it in the current files, rather than
split this up in numerous files.

Especially in the case of /run/systemd/netif this actually matters: if
we split that out into its own tmpfiles snippet, then packagers would
most likely put that in its own RPM/DEB if they split out those
daemons. But this is not advisable in this case, as sd-network (which
will eventually be a public API of libsystems) needs the directory to
be around to install an inotify watch. If the directory doesn't exist,
and the API is used it will fail entirely, which is suboptimal, given
that networkd might be installed later on, and things should then just
start to work.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat