Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2-next] Makefile: use systemd-tmpfiles to create /var/lib/arpd

From: Max Gautier <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 09:22:20 +0100

On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 06:30:07PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 23:28:31 +0100
> Max Gautier <[email-masked]> 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 <[email-masked]> 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