Re: [atomic-devel] systemd.unit files and atomic upgrade.

[SGhosh <sghosh redhat com>]

On 05/21/2015 05:41 PM, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Thu, May 21, 2015, at 04:22 PM, Tim St Clair wrote:
> > Every reboot it's ignored.
> >
> > Only on an explicit deamon-reload did it take the unit file into account.
> One side effect of how `atomic host upgrade` works via OSTree is that
> the configuration merge of `/etc` will only take effect when you run it.
>
> If your provisioning process does something like:
>
> ```
> # atomic host upgrade
> # ansible/puppet/vi
> # ... time passes ...
> # reboot
> ```
>
> Then the changes in `/etc` will be "lost" in the previous deployment.
> I'd recommend rebooting soon after invoking `atomic host upgrade`.  We'll
> work to improve this in the future:
>
> https://github.com/projectatomic/rpm-ostree/issues/40
>
> Is this the issue?

Is this because you are taking a snapshot of /etc during the upgrade call?

Is so, might want to look at "atomic reboot" just to capture the changes 
until actual reboot...