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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] act-{user,group} & RDEPEND
From:       Mike Gilbert <floppym () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2019-08-28 15:24:30
Message-ID: CAJ0EP40tr-yE1uJSXeU4OEWbkg_yVhRddQmJiswOnDyCKeFAQw () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 11:09 AM Thomas Deutschmann <whissi@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> most packages are putting acct-{user,group}/* dependencies into RDEPEND.
>
> What about packages using tmpfiles eclass and installing tmpfiles which
> will make use of acct-{user,group}/* depedencies?
>
> I.e. dev-db/mysql-init-scripts will install
> "/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/mysql.conf" with the following content:
>
> > d /var/run/mysqld 0755 mysql mysql -
>
> The package is a requirement for all
> dev-db/{mysql,mariadb,percona-server} packages because it will provide
> runscript/services.
>
> To be able to start your chosen database server right after
> installation, we trigger tmpfiles service in pkg_postinst via
> tmpfiles_process().
>
> Therefore, mysql user and group provided by acct-{user,group}/mysql must
> be merged *before* tmpfiles_process() will be called or
> "/var/run/mysqld" will be created as root:root which will prevent your
> favorite database server to start.
>
> However, devmanual
> (https://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/dependencies/) says:
>
> > Items which are in RDEPEND but not DEPEND could in theory be merged
> > after the target package. Portage does not currently do this.
> So don't we have a conceptual problem here and are just lucky that
> current used PMs don't do at the moment what specification will allow
> them to do?
>
> Moving to (B)DEPEND will address the problem for non-binary package
> users only.

There is an open bug to address this in a future EAPI.

https://bugs.gentoo.org/660306

Until then, putting the deps in RDEPEND is the best we can do.

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