On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 8:25 PM Ian Kent <ra...@themaw.net> wrote: > > On Tue, 2019-04-30 at 17:29 +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 01:12:43PM -0400, Robert Marcano wrote: > > > On 4/30/19 11:45 AM, David Howells wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I need to install a directory (/afs) that will be a mountpoint that a > > > > systemd > > > > service (also installed in the rpm) will mount upon. > > I seem to remember you can't create root level directories from a > program either.
Of course you can. The program needs to run with root privileges. and not violate whatever SELinux or other "/" mountpoint restrictions exist. It's a *Bad Idea(tm), since it violates the File System Hierarchy, but that hardly makes it impossible. > So the user needs to create these directories manually! > > That problem hasn't been reported for a while so this may have changed. > > > > > Nope. New top-level directories are a big thing and need FPC approval: > > > https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Packaging:Guidelines&oldid=528452#Filesystem_Layout > > (I can't find the text in the new guidelines, but the new guidelines don't > > support searching, so finding anything is PITA, so I'll just assume that > > this is still valid...) > > That's a great idea. > > So, as has been happening, I have to advise users that they must create > any mount point directories they need in / manually before starting autofs. Or better yet, in /opt/ or /usr/local/ or /var/lib/ or whatever makes the most sense with the File System Hierarchy. > It's this sort of policy that makes me want to close bugs for this without > any explanation of why the problem occurs! > > Regarding the FPC approval: I don't think it should be granted. There > > is no good reason to create a mount point like this under root. It should go > > somewhere under /run or /var. > > Rubbish, the package is following long standing conventions, there's no > good reason to prevent this and, while it may be possible in this case, > it's not always possible to know what directory (or directories) will > need to be created therefore it's not possible to seek approval. \And violating a much more important, namely the File System Hiearchy. If you can find a good reason to violate that, publish your reasoning. By the way, I've dealt with /afs style automounting before, and it was a nightmare to clean up after when it inevitably croaked precisely due to the root filesystem location of "/afs". _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
