[Pkg-systemd-maintainers] Bug#727016: Systemd upgrade restored deleted configuration file

[John Williams]

On Mon, 21 Oct 2013 16:43:33 +0200
Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:

> I hope you didn't place a real file in
> /etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/?
> Only symlinks should be created in .wants directories.

No, I created
  /etc/systemd/system/autologin\@.service
and then linked to that

> The conffiles handling of symlinks in dpkg is odd afair. That's why
> the symlink shipped in the systemd package is not flagged as conffile
> automatically.
> We'd have to mangle the conffiles manually to achieve that, but I'm a
> bit worried about the possible side effects.
> I assume symlinks aren't conffiles for a reason.

Maybe "postinst" could create the link on initial installation, but not
on an upgrade?
Would it help if I named my modified file getty at tty1.service ?

Maybe there's a better way of logging myself in automatically ?

Thanks for the very quick reply,
John



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