Why not enable templated units?

[Michael Biebl]

Am 02.10.2014 um 01:23 schrieb Ryan Kuester:
> Hi all,
> 
> dh_systemd_enable in package init-system-helpers skips enabling
> templated unit files (i.e., those with a "@" in their name), saying it's
> not useful to do so [1]. Is that really true?

Yes, I think so. Template files themselves are usually not enabled, but
instances of them. So it doesn't make sense to enable foo at .service, but
it might make sense to enable foo at bar.service.

> I'm finding it useful in a templated service unit which declares a
> WantedBy to another templated service unit. 'systemctl enable $service'
> happily installs the expected symlink, and this construction causes both
> services to be instantiated with the instance name substituted. 

Do you have a concrete example?


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