Bug 1182785

Summary:	Tracker for regular files in /var (incompatible with rpm-ostree)
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Colin Walters <walters>
Component:	distribution	Assignee:	Václav Pavlín <vpavlin>
Status:	CLOSED EOL	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	22	CC:	dennis
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Description Colin Walters 2015-01-15 22:08:10 UTC

The way rpm-(OSTree) is designed is that the /var directory is owned by the daemons and system administrator.  Upgrades and rollbacks will never affect it.

Now, many daemons need empty directories in /var.  rpm-ostree contains code to automatically synthesize systemd-tmpfiles snippets for them.  For these packages, a nicer thing to do is to stop shipping the directory (perhaps with a %ghost entry).

However, anything with non-empty regular files will not work.  The best solution here is to modify the code to not depend on one.  For example, glibc ships a /var/db/Makefile.  This could be replaced with a symbolic link to /usr/share/glibc/db/Makefile.  Or alternatively, suggest that administrators do:

make -f /usr/share/glibc/db/Makefile

Comment 1 Jaroslav Reznik 2015-03-03 16:43:14 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 22 development cycle.
Changing version to '22'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Program_Management/HouseKeeping/Fedora22

Comment 2 Fedora End Of Life 2016-07-19 12:39:09 UTC

Fedora 22 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2016-07-19. Fedora 22 is
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further
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