Package: systemd Version: 252.6-1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer,I tried to disable systemd-gpt-auto-generator because I do not need it. man 8 systemd-gpt-auto-generator documents the necessary kernel parameter in the section "KERNEL COMMAND LINE" which is at the bottom of the man page. Incorrect is the original:Those options take an optional boolean argument, and default to yes. The generator is enabled by default, and a negative value maybe used to disable it. That did not work. Correct isThose options take an optional boolean argument, and default to yes. The generator is enabled by default, "no" maybe used to disable it.
systemd-gpt-auto-generator uses the parse_boolean() function, which interprets the following values as false [1]:
"0",
"no",
"n",
"false",
"f",
"off"
With "negative value", any of those strings is meant.
So changing the documentation as per your suggestion would be incomplete.
I suppose, with "negative value", you understood a negative *integer*
value, like say -1?
I do not have a better suggestion how to phrase it and in any case, this should be addressed upstream. I kindly ask you to raise this at https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues (maybe you have an idea how the documentation can be improved).
Running a # grep boolean man/ -Rshows that the documentation is not really consistent in that regard. Sometimes it uses, true, yes, false, no, etc.
Regards,
Michael
[1] For completeness sake, the corresponding positive values are
"1",
"yes",
"y",
"true",
"t",
"on"
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