On Tue, 25 Feb 2020 15:21:51 +0000, Joe Beanfish wrote:

> Which sounds like the road the OP went down initially. I always want to
> use the service file that comes with the latest software so everything's
> compatible & works as designed. I just want to tweak one setting in
> there,
> PrivateTmp to be specific.
>
> Right now I have a little script that runs right after updates and
> checks the setting and edits the service file with sed as needed then
> runs systemctl daemon-reload;systemctl restart THE_SERVICE
>
> I guess I'm stuck with that... Unless someone knows of deeper magic
> they're willing to share?

Yes, but not, AFAIK usable with Raspbian. The Fedora distro's dnf package
manager is capable of updating config files without overwriting any
customisations you may have previously applied, and this applies to
systemd gubbins as well. If for some reason it has to clobber a custom
setting, it flops the new file in after making a copy of the one it
replaces.

Its dead easy to find these cases - just run "locate *.rpmnew" after
running "dnf update". and then using diff and your favourite editor to
reconcile the two. Can't think why Debian doesn't do something similar.


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