Seedfiles

A portable drop-in reimplementation of systemd-tmpfiles.

Implements pretty much all of systemd-tmpfiles, searches the same config paths and allows for per-user configs.

Diferences to systemd-tmpfiles

Following features are not implemented in seedfiles, but exist in systemd-tmpfiles. If any feature is needed but not implemented, feel free to open an issue or send a patch!

Item types:

• e - Adjusting permissions on existing directory

Modifiers:

• ^ - reading arguments from systemd-credentials
• $ - entries for --purge
• ? - skip symlink creation if target doesn't exist

CLI Flags:

• --purge - Delete everything that would have been created
• --cat-config - Print all resolved config files
• --tldr - Same as --cat-config but without comments
• --graceful - Silently ignoring users/groups
• -E - Exclude /dev, /proc, /run and /sys prefixes
• --image - Operate on a disk image
• --image-policy - Disk image policy
• --replace - Replace specific config files
• --inline - Passing rules as arguments instead of stdin. Just use stdin.

Missing Features/Subsystems

• SELinux - No label management, z/Zonly do chmod/chown
• age-by - Timestamp in age column is ignored, only mtime is checked by cleanup
• credentials - No systemd-credentials support
• BTRFS - v/q/Q fall back to mkdir, don't act on subvolumes/quotas

Source

Seedfiles can be downloaded from https://git.pinkro.se/Rose/gardenhouse/seedfiles.git/about/

It's also mirrored to Codeberg where bugtracking is done.

A sys-apps/seedfiles port is available in the ::gentoo repository

A seedfiles package is also available in debian and any debian deriviatives.