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| author | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2018-10-08 18:43:14 +0200 |
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| committer | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2018-10-08 18:49:45 +0200 |
| commit | 83f72cd65fb85d3eb57efde78790bb05f3474e9b (patch) | |
| tree | 01d4317b1092d4328410147ef183e3534de5d4f3 /man/portablectl.xml | |
| parent | portable: properly handle if the unit file directory for portable service ima... (diff) | |
| download | systemd-83f72cd65fb85d3eb57efde78790bb05f3474e9b.tar.xz systemd-83f72cd65fb85d3eb57efde78790bb05f3474e9b.zip | |
man,docs: document the new unit file directory for attached images
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| -rw-r--r-- | man/portablectl.xml | 16 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/man/portablectl.xml b/man/portablectl.xml index 24b9f4ead1..33b14ea065 100644 --- a/man/portablectl.xml +++ b/man/portablectl.xml @@ -101,9 +101,9 @@ <term><option>--runtime</option></term> <listitem><para>When specified the unit and drop-in files are placed in - <filename>/run/systemd/system/</filename> instead of <filename>/etc/systemd/system/</filename>. Images attached - with this option set hence remain attached only until the next reboot, while they are normally attached - persistently.</para></listitem> + <filename>/run/systemd/system.attached/</filename> instead of + <filename>/etc/systemd/system.attached/</filename>. Images attached with this option set hence remain attached + only until the next reboot, while they are normally attached persistently.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> @@ -167,8 +167,10 @@ <listitem><para>All unit files of types <filename>.service</filename>, <filename>.socket</filename>, <filename>.target</filename>, <filename>.timer</filename> and <filename>.path</filename> which match the indicated unit file name prefix are copied from the image to the host's - <filename>/etc/systemd/system/</filename> directory (or <filename>/run/systemd/system/</filename> — depending - whether <option>--runtime</option> is specified, see above).</para></listitem> + <filename>/etc/systemd/system.attached/</filename> directory (or + <filename>/run/systemd/system.attached/</filename> — depending whether <option>--runtime</option> is + specified, see above), which is included in the built-in unit search path of the system service + manager.</para></listitem> <listitem><para>For unit files of type <filename>.service</filename> a drop-in is added to these copies that adds <varname>RootDirectory=</varname> or <varname>RootImage=</varname> settings (see @@ -330,6 +332,10 @@ to place image files directly in <filename>/etc/portables/</filename> or <filename>/run/systemd/portables/</filename> (as these are generally not suitable for storing large or non-textual data), but use these directories only for linking images located elsewhere into the image search path.</para> + + <para>When a portable service image is attached, matching unit files are copied onto the host into the + <filename>/etc/systemd/system.attached/</filename> and <filename>/run/systemd/system.attached/</filename> + directories. When an image is detached, the unit files are removed again from these directories.</para> </refsect1> <refsect1> |