tmpfiles.d/ update with today's update

[Neal Becker]

Running todays dnf update I saw:

usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/sddm.conf:6: Line references path below legacy directory
/var/run/, updating /var/run/sddm → /run/sddm; please update
the tmpfiles.d/ drop-in file accordingly.

Any ideas what this is about?

Thanks,
Neal

[Mike Wright]

On 3/8/23 06:45, Neal Becker wrote:
> Running todays dnf update I saw:
>
> usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/sddm.conf:6: Line references path below legacy directory
> /var/run/, updating /var/run/sddm → /run/sddm; please update
> the tmpfiles.d/ drop-in file accordingly.
>
> Any ideas what this is about?

Hi Neal,

Historically, "/run" was beneath "/var" but has been promoted to its own 
root level space.  At least so far programs still using the historical 
location continue to run but are advised to change the caller to use 
/run instead.  It's less a warning than an advisement.

It's easy to change the location if it's referred to in something like a 
systemd .service file because they are text.  If it's hard coded it has 
to be changed by the maintainer or developer.

Mike Wright

[Michael D. Setzer II]

On 8 Mar 2023 at 7:05, Mike Wright wrote:

Date sent:      	Wed, 8 Mar 2023 07:05:34 -0800
Subject:        	Re: tmpfiles.d/ update with today's update
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From:           	Mike Wright 

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> On 3/8/23 06:45, Neal Becker wrote:
> > Running todays dnf update I saw:
> >
> > usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/sddm.conf:6: Line references path below legacy directory
> > /var/run/, updating /var/run/sddm → /run/sddm; please update
> > the tmpfiles.d/ drop-in file accordingly.
> >
> > Any ideas what this is about?
>
> Hi Neal,
>
> Historically, "/run" was beneath "/var" but has been promoted to its own 
> root level space.  At least so far programs still using the historical 
> location continue to run but are advised to change the caller to use 
> /run instead.  It's less a warning than an advisement.
>
> It's easy to change the location if it's referred to in something like a 
> systemd .service file because they are text.  If it's hard coded it has 
> to be changed by the maintainer or developer.

I had seen same message on a machine, and made 
change to file a number of times, but then did dnf 
reinstall sddm to see if it would fix the messages, but 
then checked file again, and it was back to /var/run.
> Mike Wright
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[Tim]

On Wed, 2023-03-08 at 07:05 -0800, Mike Wright wrote:
> Historically, "/run" was beneath "/var" but has been promoted to its own 
> root level space.  At least so far programs still using the historical 
> location continue to run but are advised to change the caller to use 
> /run instead.  It's less a warning than an advisement.

So... my take on it would be that they're trying to put the notion into
the heads of people working on the software, rather than trying to get
end-users to change their systems?

I'd imagine if the average user went tweaking their system as advised,
the next package update is probably going to undo it.

[Colin J Thomson]

On Wednesday, 8 March 2023 14:45:04 GMT Neal Becker wrote:
> Running todays dnf update I saw:
>
> usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/sddm.conf:6: Line references path below legacy directory
> /var/run/, updating /var/run/sddm → /run/sddm; please update
> the tmpfiles.d/ drop-in file accordingly.
>
> Any ideas what this is about?

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2176111

It's is fixed and the new sddm-* packages  should hit updates/stable pretty 
soon.

-Colin