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. -- |8] -- 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/87sjf7umhf.fsf@algernon.balabit