[systemd-bugs] [Bug 90455] RFE: tmpfiles: allow multiple "w" lines for the same file, as long as they share all the same attributes (with the exception of the final argument to write)

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90455

--- Comment #7 from Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net> ---
(In reply to Sergio Durigan Junior from comment #6)
> (In reply to Lennart Poettering from comment #5)
> > Well, if you have one line that sets the access mode to 0755 for a file, and
> > another one which sets it to 0777, what do you do? It's not clear what
> > actually should happen in that case, hence we generally report errors about
> > conflicting lines.
> 
> I am not a systemd developer, so I may be talking BS here, but in this case
> it seems to me that the *.conf file should be processed line-by-line, i.e.,
> the order matters, so if you are setting the mode to 0755 and then to 0777,
> the last one "wins".  

Well, currently the first one wins, plus you get a message informing you about
the conflict. I think that's pretty OK already.

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