[PATCH v4 3/3] NEWS: mention removal of sysconfig

Jim Fehlig jfehlig at suse.com
Tue Dec 14 18:48:10 UTC 2021


On 12/14/21 08:37, Olaf Hering wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf at aepfle.de>
> ---
>   NEWS.rst | 10 ++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
> index 4d1a1501ef..ce324afb8a 100644
> --- a/NEWS.rst
> +++ b/NEWS.rst
> @@ -36,6 +36,16 @@ v8.0.0 (unreleased)
>   
>   * **Improvements**
>   
> +  * packaging: sysconfig files no longer installed
> +
> +    libvirt used to provide defaults in various /etc/sysconfig/ files, such
> +    as /etc/sysconfig/libvirt. Since these files are owned by the admin, this

Small nit: should be /etc/sysconfig/libvirtd.

Jim

> +    made it difficult to change built-in defaults in case such file was
> +    modified by the admin. The built-in defaults are now part of the provided
> +    systemd unit files, such as libvirtd.service. These unit files continue
> +    to parse sysconfig files, in case they are created by the admin and filled
> +    with the desired key=value pairs.
> +
>   * **Bug fixes**
>   
>   
> 




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