'Twas brillig, and Lennart Poettering at 17/09/13 20:03 did gyre and gimble: > On Fri, 13.09.13 15:15, Colin Guthrie ([email protected]) wrote: >>> * The systemd-sysctl tool no longer natively reads the >>> file /etc/sysctl.conf. If desired, the file should be >>> symlinked from /etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf. Apart from >>> providing legacy support by a symlink rather than built-in >>> code, it also makes the otherwise hidden order of application >>> of the different files visible. >> >> It's also worth noting here that sysctl.d files are processed >> differently now. >> >> Up to and including v197 (or fabe5c0e5fce730aa66e10a9c4f9fdd443d7aeda), >> sysctl.d files had to be named higher than the 50-default.conf file to >> override something. e.g. if you wanted to override "kernel.sysrq = 16" >> then you needed to put it in a file named 51-i-know-better.conf in the >> appropriate location. >> >> >From v198+ the order changed, and you had to name the file *lower* than >> 50-default.conf, e.g. 49-i-know-better.conf. >> >> Now from v207 onwards the ordering has reverted back to the v197 logic >> (which I agree feels more natural). >> >> If you have distro tools and/or have deployed updates which adapted to >> this change in behaviour, you should undo those changes with this release. >> >> It may make sense to update the NEWS file in git to include a note about >> this (albeit very minor) "API" breakage (although the v198 NEWS didn't >> mention it's change in behaviour so perhaps it's fine to leave it out!). >> >> All the best > > I added a short comment now to the NEWS file that mentions that this > basically reverts things to pre-198. Does that work for you?
That's great, thanks. :) Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/ _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
