[systemd-devel] Have custom agetty behaviour even after upgadres

[Kay Sievers]

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 8:51 PM, Dave Reisner <d at falconindy.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 08:39:23PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
>> On Thu, 10.05.12 23:27, Seblu (seblu at seblu.net) wrote:
>> >
>> > on my archlinux test computer i would have first console not cleaned
>> > and other spawned statically (crazy idea isn't it).
>> >
>> > So I've turned NAutoVTs to 1 in /etc/systemd/systemd-logind.conf.
>> > I've copied /usr/lib/systemd/system/getty at .service into
>> > /etc/systemd/system/ and patched as following:
>>
>> > My issue is at every systemd package upgrade, getty at tty1.service is
>> > replaced by a new one linked to
>> > /usr/lib/systemd/system/getty at .service.
>> > And i loose my configuration.
>>
>> This sounds like a packaging problem downstream, nothing we can fix upstream.
>>
>
> Strange that you say that, since make install does the following:
>
>  ( cd $(DESTDIR)$(pkgsysconfdir)/system/getty.target.wants && \
>    rm -f getty at tty1.service && \
>    $(LN_S) $(systemunitdir)/getty at .service getty at tty1.service )
>
> See line 3128ish on git master. This is absolutely something that we (Arch
> Linux) inherit from upstream.

Yeah, "make install" is different from a package upgrade. The stuff
might need to get annotated as noreplace in the package?

Kay