Bug#991479: systemd: /etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf gets overwritten even with --force-confold

[Michael Biebl]

Am 25.07.21 um 23:21 schrieb Michael Biebl:

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Am 25.07.21 um 13:21 schrieb Franziska Kunsmann:

Package: systemd
Version: 247.3-6
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

I'm upgrading my systems periodically using:


The systemd debian package will silently overwrite
/etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf with a symlink to /etc/sysctl.conf

If a user changes 99-sysctl.conf to a regular file and puts some changes
into that file, these changes will get lost during the upgrade, thus
possibly breaking systems which depend on those changes.

     DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get -y -q -o Dpkg::Options::=--force-confold dist-upgrade

This is dpkg replacing that file with a symlink. I don't see how systemd can change anything about the behaviour of dpkg.

Regards,
Michael

Let's close this here. I don't see how systemd can do anything about that dpkg behaviour.

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