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authorEric Curtin <ecurtin@redhat.com>2023-04-17 22:09:24 +0100
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2023-04-25 17:40:41 +0200
commitb9dac418372401742609bd600f05267ae3a724de (patch)
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parentd30d5a0374687e4bd5e0a0cceb38ed3a57d42d79 (diff)
downloadsystemd-b9dac418372401742609bd600f05267ae3a724de.tar.gz
Support /etc/system-update for OSTree systems
This is required when / is immutable and cannot be written at runtime. Co-authored-by: Richard Hughes <richard@hughsie.com>
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diff --git a/man/systemd.special.xml b/man/systemd.special.xml
index 85eb8ad076..1620895511 100644
--- a/man/systemd.special.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.special.xml
@@ -753,8 +753,8 @@
<listitem>
<para>A special target unit that is used for offline system updates.
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-system-update-generator</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
- will redirect the boot process to this target if <filename>/system-update</filename>
- exists. For more information see
+ will redirect the boot process to this target if <filename>/system-update</filename> or
+ <filename>/etc/system-update</filename> exists. For more information see
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.offline-updates</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
</para>
@@ -764,9 +764,10 @@
<filename>system-update-pre.target</filename> but not pull it in. Services which want to
run during system updates only, but before the actual system update is executed should
order themselves before this unit and pull it in. As a safety measure, if this does not
- happen, and <filename>/system-update</filename> still exists after
+ happen, and <filename>/system-update</filename> or
+ <filename>/etc/system-update</filename> still exists after
<filename>system-update.target</filename> is reached,
- <filename>system-update-cleanup.service</filename> will remove this symlink and reboot
+ <filename>system-update-cleanup.service</filename> will remove the symlinks and reboot
the machine.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>