Provide some way to wipe /var/tmp
With bd6326e3 using wipe_tmp
in /etc/conf.d/bootmisc
now prints a big warning on each boot. As discussed in #13070 (closed), wipe_tmp
should not be needed for /tmp
since it should be a tmpfs anyhow. However, /var/tmp
usually isn't a tmpfs and thus does need to be wiped occasionally. I believe other distribution use systemd-tmpfiles(8)
for this purpose (see the OpenRC upstream bug). I personally relied on wipe_tmp
so far to wipe /var/tmp
. However, since usage of wipe_tmp
is discouraged now and causes a warning I am wondering what the alternative is we are suggesting to users for 3.15. #13070 (comment 185660) suggests tmpreaper
but we don't package that presently and it seems very dated.
I think short term, i.e. for 3.15, it would be nice to have some way to disable the wipe_tmp
warning. Maybe even just move that warning to a comment in /etc/conf.d/bootmisc
instead of printing it unconditionally on service startup? Given the present lack of an alternative, I don't want every user of an Alpine desktop machine that I am administering to bother me about this warning.