On 22 January 2015 at 14:00, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbys...@in.waw.pl> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 01:54:37PM +0000, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: >> Is there a way to remove / override wants that are specified via >> .wants directory, .d snippet with "Wants=", or wants specified in the >> unit itself? >> >> I thought that creating a symlink to /dev/null from a higher up >> directory would disable wants dependency but it didn't: >> >> e.g.: >> I was expecting for >> /run/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/getty@tty1.service -> /dev/null >> >> to cancel >> >> /etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/getty@tty1.service -> >> ../../../../usr/lib/systemd/system/getty@.service >> >> However i've found that the target of the symlink does not matter, and >> thus symlinks to /dev/null in .wants directory enable the >> dependencies. >> >> One can experiment with just dummy foo.target and bar.target in >> /etc/systemd/system. >> >> Similarly I've tried adding .d snippet with "Wants=!unwanted.service" >> but that only failed to load the snippet... >> >> So, is there a way to unwant something, as an override? > IIRC, we had a discussion about that, but I don't remember the result. >
If anyone has topic names / mailing-list urls i'd be glad for those to be pointed out. > In any case, /etc overrides /run, so your example can never work. > Oh, ok. But any combination of the two. E.g. for /etc to unwant from /run then, or for /etc to unwant from /usr. At the moment, I'm looking at packaging symlinks in .wants directories under /usr and then allow to uninstall such a package as a means to override the default config. Since I would like to update how the default config is setup, without doing in /etc where I'd have to answer "is this my old config, or user modified it and I shouldn't touch it" -- Regards, Dimitri. Intel Corporation (UK) Ltd. - Co. Reg. #1134945 - Pipers Way, Swindon SN3 1RJ. _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
