Re: Packaging /run/lock/* directories breaks installation in containers

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Rex Dieter wrote:

> Jan Pazdziora wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> the page
>> 
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Tmpfiles.d
>> 
>> suggests to specify /run/%{name}/ directories and files in %files and
>> then says
>> 
>> Files placed in the subdirectories may be listed the same way
>> or omitted entirely as the files will be cleaned up on every
>> reboot.
>> 
>> I assume it talks about subdirectories of that /run/%{name}/.
>> 
>> However, how about subdirectories like /run/lock/%{name}/ ?
>> 
>> In Fedora base container images, the /run is empty. So when you try to
>> do
>> 
>> FROM fedora:23
>> RUN dnf install -y package-which-puts-something-to-run-lock
>> 
>> it will fail because there is no /run/lock there. An example is
>> opencryptoki and
>> 
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1341079
>> 
>> What is the policy about specifying /run/lock/ (and in general
>> /run/otherdirs/) subdirectories in %files?
>> 
>> Could the guideline be amended to explicitly say that anything under
>> /run/ which is not under /run/%{name}/ should not be listed in %files?
> 
> I've always been of the firm opinion that in general all files should be
> "owned", e.g. that rpm -q -f /path/too/foo can tell you the owner.  So, I
> would argue against the amendment you suggest.
> 
> Offhand, what seems to be the real problem here is the lack of /run/lock
> in
> the container images.  I'd consider that a bug worth fixing.  Is that not
> possible?

To expand on that, one fix would be to ensure /run/lock is "owned", 
currently it is not.  filesystem owns /var/lock, /var/run and /run, so 
adding /run/lock there too could be a possibility.

-- Rex
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