[systemd-devel] systemd-network-wait-online symlinks to systemd-networkd

[Dave Reisner]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 07:32:56PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> Symlinks should probably just be considered different type of file, that
> have a contents and stuff. The contents is usually a file name, and
> there's a size limit, but other than that it's just a magic kind of
> file, where the symlink destination is the conents. That's how git
> handles this, for example.
> 
> I have the suspicion that this is really something to fix in your
> package manager. It should learn to handle symlink upgrades the same way
> as configuration file upgrades....

Does rpm handle this exact case? Can anyone comment on dpkg handling of
this case?

> > > I mean, ideally we'd just invoke "systemctl preset" for these things,
> > > but for the sake of cross-compilation we can avoid this easily. 
> > >
> > > We probably should ship make sure to ship the very same symlinks we
> > > create with "make install" with a preset file though...
> > 
> > Yeah, this sounds prone to drift unless it could be generated from some
> > "master" list.
> 
> Well, given that it's not a hundred symlinks, but just a few, I think
> having a list in the preset files and one in the makefile isn't too
> error-prone...

But it still involves humans.