On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 06:30:51AM -0700, terrygalant.li...@fastest.cc wrote: > Hi > > I have 2 installed instances of a single daemon. > > 1 is from distro-installed packages, installed into standard default OS > locations with unit files in /usr/lib/systemd/system/. > > The other is installed under /opt, with unit files currently in > /opt/mydaemon/systemd/system/, which can be (un)symlinked as needed into > /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/ to disable or enable. > > I want to be able to occasionally toggle between use of the 2. > > Is the right systemd way to do manage this toggle to just name the 2 > instances' unit files differently, put a Conflicts= in each for the other, > and just use 'enable' for whichever I want active?
That would work. You can also make a symlink from /etc/systemd/system/xxx.service to either of the two files and manage it by hand, calling systemctl daemon-reload afterwards. I think this should work. > If other systemd units have a Requires= dependency on this daemon, how do I > deal with the toggle? Is there a "Require=this-instance-OR-that-instance" > equivalent? No. Zbyszek _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
