From b0edbac36cd75bfd5624f20884043553da14ced2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Jan Synacek <jsynacek@redhat.com>

Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2016 08:41:54 +0100

Subject: [PATCH] man/tmpfiles.d: add note about permissions and ownership of

 symlinks

...because this is might not be obvious.

Cherry-picked from: b908bb63c41eaf3c44004b6b737d105c39df2075

Resolves: #1296288

---

 man/tmpfiles.d.xml | 3 ++-

 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/man/tmpfiles.d.xml b/man/tmpfiles.d.xml

index 9b4e11c1b9..fc1fe13aca 100644

--- a/man/tmpfiles.d.xml

+++ b/man/tmpfiles.d.xml

@@ -187,7 +187,8 @@

           be removed and be replaced by the symlink. If the argument

           is omitted, symlinks to files with the same name residing in

           the directory <filename>/usr/share/factory/</filename> are

-          created.</para></listitem>

+          created. Note that permissions and ownership on symlinks

+          are ignored.</para></listitem>

         </varlistentry>

         <varlistentry>