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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