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Re: init system policy



Quoting Russ Allbery (2014-11-20 17:28:28)
> Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> writes:
>
>> Seems to me this is a similar limitation as for config.d structures - as
>> an example apache2 is now far more modular than in the past but I no
>> longer as sysadmin get notified what exactly has changed when I upgrade
>> a system with customizations, as I did in the past thanks to the
>> monolithic configfile being a conffile.
>
> There was some discussion about this a while back, and I vaguely remember
> that systemd comes with a tool that will tell you exactly what you're
> overriding.  I'm not sure if that work got all the way to producing a nice
> Debian-aware tool or not.

Sounds interesting.  If anyone recall that discussion and can share a 
pointer, I would appreciate it.


> Personally (and this is just a wishlist), I'd love to have functionality
> similar to apt-listchanges that would (optionally) show me a report of
> every change to any unit file that I've overridden on each upgrade.

I have tinkered with some tools related to that.  Far from reliable yet, 
but knowing I am not alone with that wishlist might push me enough to 
polish those tools adequately...  So thank you for the encouragement :-)


 - Jonas

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