Initially the bug report was shot down by systemd developer Luca Boccassi of Microsoft with:
So an option that is literally documented as saying “all files and directories created by a tmpfiles.d/ entry will be deleted”, that you knew nothing about, sounded like a “good idea”? Did you even go and look what tmpfiles.d entries you had beforehand?
Maybe don’t just run random commands that you know nothing about, while ignoring what the documentation tells you? Just a thought eh"
Good devs, good product, I’m really excited about our shitty, shitty future.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
With users being bitten in recent days by this behavior when they were just expecting tmp files to be removed, systemd 256.1 is now available and does have a change to avoid inadvertently deleting your all-important home directory.
Thus those trying to do system maintenance without reading the man page could find their /home data deleted.
Initially the bug report was shot down by systemd developer Luca Boccassi of Microsoft with: So an option that is literally documented as saying “all files and directories created by a tmpfiles.d/ entry will be deleted”, that you knew nothing about, sounded like a “good idea”?
Maybe don’t just run random commands that you know nothing about, while ignoring what the documentation tells you?
Just a thought eh Ultimately though after much discussion the past few days, systemd-tmpfiles behavior is now improved upon.
Merged yesterday was this patch that now makes systemd-tmpfiles accept a configuration file when running purge.
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