]] Gergely Nagy > Tollef Fog Heen <tfh...@err.no> writes: > > > ]] Uoti Urpala > > > > Hi, > > > >> Wrong: as mentioned in this thread before, one of the advantages of the > >> etc-overrides-lib model is the option of having a file in /etc that > >> first includes the one in /lib, then overrides just one particular > >> value. This allows handling more updates without needing manual changes, > >> as you can automatically pick up other updated values while keeping the > >> override, without needing to do 3-way merges. > > > > This doesn't always work, though. For instance, for systemd, you'd have > > no way to get rid of an ExecStartPre line, since you can have multiple > > of them. It's probably not that common, but it's a use case I want to > > support. > > In that case, the including file can be changed (by the admin) to be a > separate file, that does not include, and get the usual conffile > conflict dpkg prompt.
How would that work? I have /lib/systemd/system/foo.service and want to change something in it, I then create /etc/systemd/system/foo.service with a copy of the /lib one plus whatever changes I want. The version in /lib is then updated. How is the admin notified? (This is the problem I want to fix with some yet unwritten tool.) -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87k40jnjmv....@qurzaw.varnish-software.com
