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Re: upgraded config files in /lib/systemd/system



Am 05.03.2017 um 20:47 schrieb Harald Dunkel:
> On 02/28/17 15:23, Dominique Dumont wrote:
> 
>> I don't understand why a change in /lib/systemd/system should trigger a conflict warning.
> 
> 
> A unit file provided by the package maintainer might introduce new
> dependencies, for example. Maybe an ExecStart or ExecStop script has
> been changed, or there are new/different command line options.
> 
> I don't think that conflicts between the user's old modified unit
> files in /etc and the new packages unit files are easy to avoid.
> 

Keep in mind, that in most cases you don't need to override the package
provided service file completely by making a full copy of it in
/etc/systemd/system

You can extend/override individual bits via drop-in files (e.g. adding
additional dependencies/orderings). For a service foo.service you create

/etc/systemd/system/foo.service.d/bla.conf
The name is arbitrary, you just need to make sure it has a .conf extension.

Fwiw, systemctl edit (--full) foo.service can help you with that

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemctl.html#edit%20NAME%E2%80%A6

This is new in stretch, jessie's systemctl doesn't have that yet.

Regards,
Michael



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