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[204.195.123.141]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id t18-20020a170902e85200b001dcfc68e7desm5063506plg.75.2024.03.11.12.40.05 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Mon, 11 Mar 2024 12:40:05 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 12:40:03 -0700 From: Stephen Hemminger To: Max Gautier Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2-next] Makefile: use systemd-tmpfiles to create /var/lib/arpd Message-ID: <20240311124003.583053a6@hermes.local> In-Reply-To: <20240311165803.62431-1-mg@max.gautier.name> References: <20240311165803.62431-1-mg@max.gautier.name> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 17:57:27 +0100 Max Gautier wrote: > Only apply on systemd systems (detected in the configure script). > The motivation is to build distributions packages without /var to go > towards stateless systems, see link below (TL;DR: provisionning anything > outside of /usr on boot). > > The feature flag can be overridden on make invocation: > `make USE_TMPFILES_D=n DESTDIR= install` > > Links: https://0pointer.net/blog/projects/stateless.html Why does arpd need such hand holding, it is rarely used, maybe should just not be built.