Re: policy for shipping sysctl.d snippets in packages?
On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 08:37:59PM +0200, Evgeni Golov wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 10:48:33AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > Evgeni Golov wrote:
> > > But this does not account for the fact that this specific tunable may be
> > > already overriden in another sysctl.d file and the package would reset
> > > it to a lower value?
> >
> > You might ask systemd upstream if they'd consider extending the syntax
> > to support "increase if below this value but don't decrease". But in
> > the absence of that, I don't think you need to worry about that kind of
> > configuration conflict unless it comes up. Ideally if multiple packages
> > need to change this limit, they'll coordinate and agree on the new
> > value, or perhaps even depend on a common configuration package.
>
> I think such an extension would be quite tricky and probably not worth it.
Can't hurt to ask, given the use case. Doesn't seem like that much of a
challenge to implement; the main challenge would be getting it
propagated widely enough to use.
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