Bug#1016561: sysvinit-core: Please recommend systemd-tmpfiles and systemd-tmpfiles

[Mark Hindley]

On Wed, Aug 03, 2022 at 01:20:58AM +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
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> On Wed, 3 Aug 2022, Adam Borowski wrote:
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> > On Wed, Aug 03, 2022 at 12:04:29AM +0200, GSR wrote:
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> > > Otherwise in cases like upgrading lvm2 (see bug #1014565) the full
> 
> This is weird, but I looked at how debootstrap resolves dependencies,
> and this is indeed a problem. Did anyone look at whether adding the
> systemd-standalone-tmpfiles package to the list of dependencies, instead
> of relying on the virtual package, helps?

If running debootstrap with --include systemd-standalone-tmpfiles replicates
changing the dependencies, then yes that fails.

Or do have you a better way of testing debootstrap with different dependencies I
haven't thought of?
 
> > Sysvinit is often installed in small containers, and I would be wary of
> > bloating them by 460KB with gratuitous dependences.

I share that concern. And this solution wouldn't fix the issue for other inits
or initless containers.

Mark

Mark