Re: [developer] Sshd fails on OS upgrade

["Joshua M. Clulow via illumos-developer" <developer@lists.illumos.org>]

On Tue, 5 Nov 2024 at 12:27, Till Wegmüller <toasterson@gmail.com> wrote:
> This file gets delivered in a working state by the package but as soon
> as you edit it, it will never be touched again by the package system. We
> can only destroy everyones edits by removing preserve=true attribute
> from the file or have this situation happen,

FWIW, there are at least two other options:

  - only deliver new software that is compatible with the existing
    configuration file (patch software as needed)

  - deliver an SMF service that "upgrades" the configuration, where
    it is mechanically possible to do so, prior to starting the service

Ultimately this is an OpenIndiana-specific issue, though, as we no
longer deliver SSH in illumos itself.  Other distributions are
presumably making different decisions with respect to backwards
compatibility and upgrades, etc.


Cheers.

-- 
Joshua M. Clulow
http://blog.sysmgr.org

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