[arch-general] Disable vboxadd.service & vboxadd-service.service after guest additions included in 4.15?

[Damjan Georgievski]

On 11 February 2018 at 13:47, Giacomo Longo via arch-general
<arch-general at archlinux.org> wrote:
> So you want to have
>
> vboxadd-service and vboxadd systemd services not starting on Linux kernel
> versions 4.15 and above?
>
> You can manage this by creating a template systemd unit
>
> /etc/systemd/system/kernel-version-less-then at .service
> -----------------------------------
> [Unit]
> Description=Check if currently installed kernel version is less than target
>
> [Service]
> Type=oneshot
> ExecStart=/usr/bin/sh -c '[[ "$(/usr/bin/vercmp %i %v)" = "1" ]]'
> Restart=no
> CollectMode=inactive-or-failed
>
> [Install]
> WantedBy=multi-user.target
>
> Then create the directories
>
> /etc/systemd/system/vboxadd.service.d/
> /etc/systemd/system/vboxadd-service.service.d/
>
> Then for each service
>
>
> /etc/systemd/system/vboxadd.service.d/kerver.conf
> -------------------------------------------------
> [Unit]
> After=kernel-version-less-then at 4.15.service
> Requires=kernel-version-less-then at 4.15.service
>
> /etc/systemd/system/vboxadd-service.service.d/kerver.conf
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> [Unit]
> After=kernel-version-less-then at 4.15.service
> Requires=kernel-version-less-then at 4.15.service
>
> In this way, if my bash-fu is correct, the version compare will fail the
> kernel-version-less-then at 4.15.service and vboxadd and vboxadd-service will
> not start



there is ConditionKernelVersion=
man systemd.unit

-- 
damjan