Re: [ptxdist] [PATCH] mosquitto: allow to overwrite .service

[Alexander Dahl via ptxdist <ptxdist@pengutronix.de>]

Hello Fabian,

Am Wed, Sep 03, 2025 at 03:44:37PM +0200 schrieb Fabian Pflug:
> Use alternative instead of copy in order to provide your own
> mosquitto.service file for easier changes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Fabian Pflug <f.pflug@pengutronix.de>
> ---
>  rules/mosquitto.make | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/rules/mosquitto.make b/rules/mosquitto.make
> index 239f1fe3c..ed10bb5f7 100644
> --- a/rules/mosquitto.make
> +++ b/rules/mosquitto.make
> @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ ifdef PTXCONF_MOSQUITTO_BROKER
>  		/etc/mosquitto/mosquitto.conf)
>  
>  ifdef PTXCONF_MOSQUITTO_SYSTEMD_UNIT
> -	@$(call install_copy, mosquitto, 0, 0, 0644, -, \
> +	@$(call install_alternative, mosquitto, 0, 0, 0644, -, \
>  		/usr/lib/systemd/system/mosquitto.service)

install_alternative does not need that dash '-' as 5th argument.
Does that even work like this?

Greets
Alex

>  	@$(call install_link, mosquitto, ../mosquitto.service, \
>  		/usr/lib/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/mosquitto.service)
> -- 
> 2.47.2
> 
>