Bug 1196805

Summary: Add extra tmpfiles.d entries for /var
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Hristo Venev <hristo>
Component: systemdAssignee: systemd-maint
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Hristo Venev 2015-02-26 19:26:05 UTC 
d /var/empty 755 root root -
d /var/db 755 root root -
d /var/spool/mail 775 root root -
L /var/mail - root root - spool/mail

These are a part of filesystem. However they must be recreated in case of rm -rf /var. Volatile systems and stuff.
Comment 1 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2015-02-26 21:29:34 UTC 
(In reply to Hristo Venev from comment #0)
> d /var/spool/mail 775 root root -
> L /var/mail - root root - spool/mail
I'd rather not go into the business of providing mail directories. Some poeple use Maildirs in /home, many systems don't do mail at all. If anything, filesystem package should carry this configuration, since they have those directories in the rpm.

> d /var/db 755 root root -
This is useless by itself, any user will have to create a subdirectory underneath this anyway.

> d /var/empty 755 root root -
Same here.

> These are a part of filesystem. However they must be recreated in case of rm
> -rf /var. Volatile systems and stuff.
In general snippets for directories should be carried by the same rpms which own those directories. This helps avoid discrepancies.
Comment 2 Jan Synacek 2015-03-04 10:00:00 UTC 
As Zbigniew already pointed out, packages should provide relevant tmpfiles.d snippets.