[systemd-devel] systemctl link and systemctl enable/disable incompatibility

[Frederic Crozat]

Le vendredi 15 mars 2013 à 09:43 +0200, Oleksii Shevchuk a écrit :
> Hi list. Currently we have next problem. systemctl have link option, and 
> manual says:
> The effect of this command is that a unit file is available for
> start and *other* commands although it isn't installed directly in the
> unit search path.
> 
> So, I assume at that point, that systemctl enable/disable should work
> for linked units. Unfortunately it couldn't, because install/remove
> contexts called with allow_symlinks=false, so unit_file_load returns
> ELOOP. Looks like this behavior couldn't be changed with simple
> allow_symlinks=false->true, because of problems with disable and Alias.
> 
> So, either enable/disable logic should be refactored, or additional info
> should go to the manual page, or link functionality should be dropped i
> think.
> 
> What is the right way to solve that problem?

Bug was opened on similar issue this week :
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62300

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