since the file system package is only supposed to contain the directory structure I'd argue that the extended file still belongs to systemd, doesn't work without it's systemd-tmpfiles anyways. The systemd rpm can query the relevant information from the rpm db, eg. https://gist.github.com/lnussel/f0ae4a9e94c8f0b9f9aafe42afa6b4a4 $ ./rpm2tmpfiles.py filesystem --path /var d /var/spool/lpd 755 lp lp d /var/lib 755 root root d /var/adm/backup/sysconfig 755 root root ...