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

[Paul Spooren]

On So, Jan 10, 2021 at 22:40, Sven Roederer <devel-sven at geroedel.de> 
wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 10. Januar 2021, 09:47:27 CET schrieb Andre Heider:
>>  > Same. I would personally like this as default sysupgrade 
>> procedure, as
>>  > that's what makes most sense imho.
>>  > If I have disabled a service it makes sense that after a firmware
>>  > upgrade it remains disabled.
>> 
>>  Seconded.
>> 
>>  Use case: Two identical routers for which I build a single image
>>  including all the packages I required. One has a workround to 
>> disable
>>  dnsmasq in rc.local, because it's always enabled after a sysupgrade 
>> and
>>  acts as a additional interfering dhcp server (I can probably 
>> configure
>>  it otherwise, but I don't require that instance at all).
> 
> That's quite the situation we have here with our common images. Users 
> during
> initial setup getting some services disabled based on their choices. 
> As the
> services shall remain inside the image (reconfiguration) the 
> services-state
> should be kept.
> 
> Sven

Do you have a follow up patch that does the service disabling after a 
reboot? I'd be curious about the implementation.

I'm in favor to have this by default unless disabled via -n. It's 
certainly less "invasive" than an automatic `opkg reinstall packages` 
step.

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