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authorZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2016-08-13 15:38:12 +0200
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2016-08-19 15:55:54 +0200
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parentshared/install: ignore unit symlinks when doing preset-all (diff)
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man: describe what symlinks to unit do, and specify that presets must use real names
The man pages didn't ever mention that symlinks to units can be created, and what exactly this means. Fix that omission, and disallow presets on alias names.
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@@ -98,6 +98,10 @@
Empty lines and lines whose first non-whitespace character is # or
; are ignored.</para>
+ <para>Presets must refer to the "real" unit file, and not to any aliases. See
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.unit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ for a description of unit aliasing.</para>
+
<para>Two different directives are understood:
<literal>enable</literal> may be used to enable units by default,
<literal>disable</literal> to disable units by default.</para>