From: Max Gautier <mg@max.gautier.name>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2-next] Makefile: use systemd-tmpfiles to create /var/lib/arpd
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 09:22:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZfAQvGTYe7eBcY3e@framework> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240311183007.4a119eeb@hermes.local>
On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 06:30:07PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 23:28:31 +0100
> Max Gautier <mg@max.gautier.name> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 12:40:03PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > > On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 17:57:27 +0100
> > > Max Gautier <mg@max.gautier.name> 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_loc> 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.
> >
> > The commit introducing the install of that directory is quite old
>
> The problem is that build environment != runtime environment for embedded systems.
That's the same for anything detected by the configure script, right ?
Hence the override capability.
> But arpd really is legacy/dead/rotting code at this point.
Yeah I can see that, not touched since 2016 (mostly). You would rather
just drop it ?
--
Max Gautier
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-03-11 16:57 [PATCH iproute2-next] Makefile: use systemd-tmpfiles to create /var/lib/arpd Max Gautier
2024-03-11 19:40 ` Stephen Hemminger
2024-03-11 22:28 ` Max Gautier
2024-03-12 1:30 ` Stephen Hemminger
2024-03-12 8:22 ` Max Gautier [this message]
2024-03-12 21:24 ` Stephen Hemminger
2024-03-12 21:34 ` Max Gautier
2024-03-12 22:19 ` Stephen Hemminger
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2024-03-13 9:16 Max Gautier
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