From 2e78fa79bbaebb358d2657c397180d2d08d69b12 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 13:21:07 +0200
Subject: tmpfiles: add new "L+" command as stronger version of "L", that
 removes the destination before creating a symlink

Also, make use of this for mtab as long as mount insists on creating it
even if we invoke it with "-n".
---
 man/tmpfiles.d.xml | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'man/tmpfiles.d.xml')

diff --git a/man/tmpfiles.d.xml b/man/tmpfiles.d.xml
index 0081a6762..2d8af981e 100644
--- a/man/tmpfiles.d.xml
+++ b/man/tmpfiles.d.xml
@@ -174,7 +174,16 @@ L    /tmp/foobar -    -    -    -   /dev/null</programlisting>
 
                                 <varlistentry>
                                         <term><varname>L</varname></term>
-                                        <listitem><para>Create a symlink if it does not exist yet.</para></listitem>
+                                        <term><varname>L+</varname></term>
+                                        <listitem><para>Create a
+                                        symlink if it does not exist
+                                        yet. If suffixed with
+                                        <varname>+</varname> and a
+                                        file already exists where the
+                                        symlink is to be created it
+                                        will be removed and be
+                                        replaced by the
+                                        symlink.</para></listitem>
                                 </varlistentry>
 
                                 <varlistentry>
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