From 6d785b6d07767834a7a00209b5de376ea42075fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lennart Poettering Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 18:24:47 +0200 Subject: man: elaborate on the order by which tmpfiles operations are executed --- man/tmpfiles.d.xml | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/man/tmpfiles.d.xml b/man/tmpfiles.d.xml index 971b142e48..8d3ed37ae3 100644 --- a/man/tmpfiles.d.xml +++ b/man/tmpfiles.d.xml @@ -101,9 +101,12 @@ the lexicographically earliest name will be applied. All other conflicting entries will be logged as errors. When two lines are prefix and suffix of each other, then the prefix is always - processed first, the suffix later. Otherwise, the - files/directories are processed in the order they are - listed. + processed first, the suffix later. Lines that take globs are + applied after those accepting no globs. If multiple operations + shall be applied on the same file (such as ACL, xattr, file + attribute adjustments) these are always done in the same fixed + order. Otherwise, the files/directories are processed in the order + they are listed. If the administrator wants to disable a configuration file supplied by the vendor, the recommended way is to place a symlink -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf