Re: [PATCH v1] virtqemud: remove sysconfig file
On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 11:23:37PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
sysconfig files are owned by the admin of the host. He has the
liberty
to put anything he wants into these files. This makes it difficult to
provide different defaults.
Remove the sysconfig file and place the current desired default into
the service file.
Local customizations can now go either into /etc/sysconfig/virtqemud
or /etc/systemd/system/virtqemud.service.d/my-knobs.conf
I'm unclear on what exactly you're trying to achieve here.
The sysconfig files shipped with libvirt contain the defaults, and
the admin is absolutely welcome to tweak them however they might like
after installation, just as is the case for all the configuration
files in /etc/libvirt.
I expect the distro's package manager will then do the right thing
when it comes to preserving these local modifications across libvirt
upgrades - I know for sure that's the case at least in Debian.
This arrangement appears to be very common, too: on my Fedora 34
machine, /etc/sysconfig contains ~25 files, all owned by some package
and most consisting of at least one non-comment lines.
Can you please elaborate on why you feel that changing the status quo
is necessary / desirable?
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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization