[systemd-devel] [PATCHv2] install: Assume *.wants symlinks have the same name as their target for scalability.

Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek zbyszek at in.waw.pl
Mon Dec 30 09:53:54 PST 2013


On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 03:00:06AM -0600, David Timothy Strauss wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
> <zbyszek at in.waw.pl> wrote:
> > I have been looking at our bugs [1-10, there are others too] related to
> > enabling/disabling of units and following of symlinks. Currently this
> > is an unintuitive mess and some changes will have to be made.
> 
> Another goal I have for any refinement in "enable" behavior is
> defining how instances should work with commands. For example, because
> we check "is-enabled" against the target of the symlinks, "systemctl
> is-enabled nginx at 123.service" returns false unless there's a specific
> "nginx at 123.service" unit (IIRC). So, "status" functions differently
> from "is-enabled" in terms of how it matches up data. This gets really
> weird when it comes to displaying the "enabled" state in the "status"
> output.
Yep, this should be fixed too.

I found another one:
-  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66912
   Autocompletion does not propose template units which have some instances enabled

Zbyszek


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