[PATCH] base-files: sysupgrade: store status of system-services

[Alberto Bursi]

On 10/01/21 22:50, Stijn Segers wrote:
> Hi Sven,
> 
> Op zondag 10 januari 2021 om 22u28 schreef Sven Roederer 
> <devel-sven at geroedel.de>:
>> Am Samstag, 9. Januar 2021, 12:28:31 CET schrieb Stijn Segers:
>>>  > @@ -228,6 +229,7 @@ do_save_conffiles() {
>>>  >
>>>  > if [ "$SAVE_INSTALLED_PKGS" -eq 1 ]; then
>>>  > echo "${INSTALLED_PACKAGES}" >> "$CONFFILES"
>>>  > +               echo "${SERVICE_STATUS}" >> "$CONFFILES"
>>>  > mkdir -p "$ETCBACKUP_DIR"
>>>
>>>  Am I reading this correctly and is this only keeping track of service
>>>  status if you tell sysupgrade to save packages? What's the rationale
>>>  behind that?
>>>
>>>  I have a personal build with all packages preinstalled, so I don't need
>>>  that. Would like to keep track of service status though. Can those two
>>>  things be entangled?
>>>
>>
>> Stijn,
>>
>> my intention was to not change the current behavior by default, so an 
>> extra
>> switch or extending an existing switch looked like the way. I've 
>> choosen the
>> lazy one, based on "when the user is storing the packages-list, he is 
>> for sure
>> interested in the services".
>> But I'm happy to add a separate switch to sysupgrade. Any preference 
>> of the
>> letter? What about using "-s"?
>>
>> Sven
> 
> Yes, that's still free and the most intuitive I think.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Stijn
> 

Since we (me, Andre Heider and Paul Spooren) are discussing/asking about 
enabling this by default, do you have any opinion on that?

-Alberto