Hello packagers, I'm working on packaging ntpd-rs (an NTP service written in Rust), and I now have all dependencies available in Fedora, so I need to actually look into how to package ntpd-rs itself. This is the first time I'm packaging something that ships a systemd service *and* creates a custom user / group *and* have that user own system directories, so I'm unsure how to proceed. The upstream project contains instructions for cargo-rpm (which is a tool that's not compatible with Fedora Packaging): https://github.com/pendulum-project/ntpd-rs/blob/main/ntpd/Cargo.toml#L51-L61 This also includes custom RPM scriptlets adapted from the system macros in Fedora (that I can't use), which do a bunch of additional things (like creating "/var/lib/ntpd-rs" with mode 700 owned by ntpd-rs, and "/etc/ntpd-rs/ntp.toml" with mode 640 and directory owned by ntpd-rs): https://github.com/pendulum-project/ntpd-rs/blob/main/pkg/rpm/scriptlets.toml I would like to replace the non-standard scriptlets with using sysusers.d for most things, but I'm unsure how to do this correctly. I tried to follow the Packaging Guidelines here: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/UsersAndGroups/#_dynamic_allocation But they don't mention how to have directories owned by user:group created by sysusers.d config file / scriptlet. I have a draft sysusers.d config file here: https://github.com/decathorpe/ntpd-rs-rpms/blob/main/ntpd-rs/ntpd-rs.sysusers This looks similar to existing files in /usr/lib/sysusers.d/, but the %sysusers_create_compat scriptlet fails to parse this file (apparently it doesn't recognise the first line as a comment??) ... The package needs to create /var/lib/ntpd-rs with mode 700 and have it owned by the ntpd-rs user, so if I understand correctly, just dropping in the sysusers.d config file is not enough, since the user won't be available during the RPM transaction to own this directory. Instead I would need to invoke the sysusers_crate macro in the package? My current draft spec is available on GitHub: https://github.com/decathorpe/ntpd-rs-rpms/blob/main/ntpd-rs/ntpd-rs.spec (which is still missing handling of the creation / ownership of /var/lib/ntpd-rs and /etc/ntpd-rs/ntp.toml). Any help would be appreciated. Fabio _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
