Bug#950788: /usr/share/man/man5/sysctl.d.5.gz: sysctl.d.5 man page has confusing directory order

Craig Small csmall at debian.org
Thu Feb 6 11:31:37 GMT 2020


Package: systemd
Version: 244-3
Severity: minor
File: /usr/share/man/man5/sysctl.d.5.gz

The sysctl.d.5 man page says this:

      Configuration files are read from directories in /etc/, /run/, /usr/local/lib/, and /lib/, in order of precedence. Each configuration file in these configuration directories shall be named in the
      style of filename.conf. Files in /etc/ override files with the same name in /run/, /usr/local/lib/, and /lib/. Files in /run/ override files with the same name under /usr/.

OK, so we have 4 directories.
Anything in /etc overrides anything in the other 3.

But files in /run? They override.. /usr?
Is this supposed to mean /usr/local/lib?
Does that mean /run does NOT override files in /lib ?

I think the man page used to say /usr/local/lib and /usr/lib and it was
(badly) saying both directories under /usr

Maybe.. I'm not really sure what way to interpret this.

 - Craig

-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.3.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_AU:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages systemd depends on:
ii  adduser          3.118
ii  libacl1          2.2.53-5
ii  libapparmor1     2.13.3-7
ii  libaudit1        1:2.8.5-2+b1
ii  libblkid1        2.34-0.1
ii  libc6            2.29-6
ii  libcap2          1:2.27-1
ii  libcryptsetup12  2:2.2.2-1
ii  libgcrypt20      1.8.5-3
ii  libgnutls30      3.6.11.1-2
ii  libgpg-error0    1.36-7
ii  libidn2-0        2.2.0-2
ii  libip4tc2        1.8.4-1
ii  libkmod2         26-3
ii  liblz4-1         1.9.2-2
ii  liblzma5         5.2.4-1+b1
ii  libmount1        2.34-0.1
ii  libpam0g         1.3.1-5
ii  libpcre2-8-0     10.34-7
ii  libseccomp2      2.4.2-2
ii  libselinux1      3.0-1
ii  libsystemd0      244-3
ii  mount            2.34-0.1
ii  util-linux       2.34-0.1

Versions of packages systemd recommends:
ii  dbus  1.12.16-2

Versions of packages systemd suggests:
ii  policykit-1        0.105-26
pn  systemd-container  <none>

Versions of packages systemd is related to:
pn  dracut           <none>
ii  initramfs-tools  0.135
ii  udev             244-3

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/systemd/logind.conf changed [not included]

-- no debconf information



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