Bug#991479: systemd: /etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf gets overwritten even with --force-confold

[Michael Biebl]

Am 25.07.21 um 23:21 schrieb Michael Biebl:
> Control: tags -1 moreinfo
> 
> Am 25.07.21 um 13:21 schrieb Franziska Kunsmann:
>> Package: systemd
>> Version: 247.3-6
>> Severity: important
>>
>> Dear Maintainer,
>>
>> I'm upgrading my systems periodically using:
>>      DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get -y -q -o 
>> Dpkg::Options::=--force-confold dist-upgrade
>>
>> The systemd debian package will silently overwrite
>> /etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf with a symlink to /etc/sysctl.conf
>>
>> If a user changes 99-sysctl.conf to a regular file and puts some changes
>> into that file, these changes will get lost during the upgrade, thus
>> possibly breaking systems which depend on those changes.
>>
> 
> This is dpkg replacing that file with a symlink. I don't see how systemd 
> can change anything about the behaviour of dpkg.
> 

Let's close this here. I don't see how systemd can do anything about 
that dpkg behaviour.

Regards,
Michael

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