[Fedora-packaging] Creation of directories via tmpfiles.d directly after package installation

[Tom Lane]

Jochen Schmitt <Jochen at herr-schmitt.de> writes:
> I have implement the creation of the /var/run/news directory in the
> inn package via tmpfiles.d.

> But It's seems, that the directory will not created directly after the
> package was installed. so I have add the line
> systemd-tmpfiles --create %{_sysconfdir}/tmpfiles/inn.conf
> on the %post stanza.

That's not the way to do it.  You should create the directory via the
normal RPM methods for including a directory --- that is, make the
directory in the install root and include it in the %files list.

What tmpfiles.d is for is to cause such directories to be recreated
after a system reboot.

Yes, it's an ugly kluge.  I don't know why tmpfiles.d needs its own
configuration instead of just looking at the RPM metadata.  But hey,
making extra work for packagers is standard practice ...

			regards, tom lane