[Mageia-dev] [soft-commits] [4584] (systemd_unit_exists) factorize

Wed May 23 21:59:32 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and David W. Hodgins at 23/05/12 20:46 did gyre and gimble:
+> On Wed, 23 May 2012 14:38:09 -0400, Colin Guthrie
+> <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
+> 
+>>
+>> NAK. No it's not redundant it's very important. The symlinks *will* be
+>> broken when run via the installer due to the $::prefix as they will
+>> point to "non-existent" paths in /lib/systemd/ (not to
+>> /mnt/lib/systemd...) so I treat any symlink that exists (even if it
+>> points to an invalid unit) as "valid" here.
+> 
+> Wouldn't it have been better to use relative symlinks then?
+
+Yes ideally, but this would require a change at the systemd side too so
+it's somewhat complicated.
+
+In the future I think it will be somewhat moot anyway (I'd like to
+investigate using systemd in the installer itself and then using
+systemd-nspawn to be able to introspect and manipulate the state of
+everything - thus avoiding all this manual poking altogether which is
+IMO much cleaner.
+
+Col
+
+
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