On 05/09/12 21:58, Fernando Lemos wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Patrick Lauer <patr...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> On 05/09/12 21:37, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: >>> ]] Philipp Kern >>> >>>> You will not, however, get a conffile update prompt when the system >>>> file changes (e.g. to update your own local copy to incorporate the >>>> fix). >>> This is something I'm pondering if we should handle in either a systemd >>> trigger or a tool that packages shipping systemd files can call to tell >>> the user about any changes. (Basically a wrapper around ucf, probably.) >>> >> Why this arbitrary limit to only one application? >> >> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=3&chap=4 >> >> Something along those lines makes life a lot easier and avoids these >> schizophrenic hacks around package managers that don't respect files - >> but it needs support in the package manager to work reliably. > Are you aware of how ucf works? Sorry, this discussion got a heavy rpm-slant because of the progeny of systemd, and there these evil hackaround are needed. And the way this was phrased I got side-tracked ...
So the proper way for everyone using a package manager would be to put the unit files in the right place in /etc/ and not worry about this confusion :) > I understand you love Gentoo, but we > do have our own tools (that probably precede Gentoo's, actually). :-) Yeah, just sometimes a bit hard to discover, and here we're mixing apt, rpm and other things ... grmbl :) > > Regards, > > -- 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/4faa7ad7.9030...@gentoo.org