On Mon, 6 May 2024 at 11:33, Barak A. Pearlmutter <b...@debian.org> wrote: > > > We have two separate issues here: > > > a/ /tmp-on-tmpfs > > b/ time based clean-up of /tmp and /var/tmp > > > I think it makes sense to discuss/handle those separately. > > Agreed. > > I also don't see any issue with a/, at worst people will be annoyed > with it for some reason and can then change it back. > > > Regarding b/: ... > > > The tmpfiles rule tmp.conf as shipped by systemd upstream ... > > Files that are older then 10 days or 30 days are automatically cleaned up. > > This seems like a rather dangerous thing to spring on people. > > First of all, time can be pretty fluid on user machines.
Then upon reading the release notes, on such a machine, one can simply do: touch /etc/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf And they get no automated cleanups. This stuff is designed to be trivially overridable, both by end-users and image builders. What I am looking for is, what packages need bugs/MRs filed to deal with this change, if any.
