Thanks for your work on this. On Wed, Jun 10, 2026 at 01:27:12AM +0200, Lorenzo wrote: > > I would suggest that you reach out to upstream; they have been very > > helpful in getting bugs fixed, and also state that they will merge > > any needed tmpfiles config. > > seedfiles is also still very new, so the issue with --clean in /run > > should best also be discussed upstream.
ISTR that on GNU Hurd /run doesn't have to be a tmpfs as so it should be cleaned. We had a similar discussion relating to bin:initscripts and whether the /run cleaning code could be removed. I will try to find the reference. > 1. do we want to add a common boot script (will work for Sysvinit, > Openrc and runit) to seedfiles/standalone-tmpfiles or we prefer to > delegate this to each init package? I think support for each init is better within the package. > My preference as runit maintainer is: > - exclude /dev from files creation (delegate to each init); Yes > - I don't like the flood on /run, but I can live with it; Not sure what you mean by 'flood'? > - I don't see the use of cleaning in /run, it's a tmpfs here, but > maybe I'm missing something GNU Hurd? > - I suspect users can be surprised and very unhappy of > time-based (ie older that 10d or 20d) clean up in /tmp and I'm not > sure what to do with /tmp Please don't do time-based cleanup of /tmp. If a user wants it, there are easy ways to implement it. Cheers, Mark
