[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1848940] Re: gnome-control-center does not respect symbolic links

2019-10-20 Thread Matthias Kruzenski
In short: Symbolic links are absolutely necessary to exclude files from overlayfs. Long explanation: I use overlayfs to protect my system's root file system. With overlayfs all changes are only in RAM. So any change is only temporary. I want some changes to be persistent. To do that I copy these

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1848940] [NEW] gnome-control-center does not respect symbolic links

2019-10-20 Thread Matthias Kruzenski
Public bug reported: Configuration files created as symbolic links are overwritten by gnome- control-center. This probably affects any configuration file managed by gnome-control-center. Test case: -- 1.) Create symbolic links of the following files sudo mv /etc/default/locale /etc/defa