SYSTEMD-...GENERATOR(8)

💅 SYSTEMD-...GENERATOR(8) 💅

okay bestie, welcome to the manual page for systemd-system-update-generator — she's a lil generator that lives in the systemd world and she has ONE job, and honestly? she ate. no cap.

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✨ NAME ✨

systemd-system-update-generator — the generator that redirects your boot straight into offline update mode 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

/usr/lib/systemd/system-generators/systemd-system-update-generator

that's it. that's the whole vibe. no args, no flags, no drama. she just exists at that path and does her thing 💖

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea, bestie: systemd-system-update-generator is a generator, and what she does is automatically redirect the boot process over to system-update.target — but ONLY if /system-update or /etc/system-update exists. like, if one of those is there, she's like "okay we're doing this" and reroutes everything. if they're not there? she's chill, she does nothing, we move on. 🫶

why does this matter tho? because this is literally the mechanism required to make the logic in systemd.offline-updates(7) actually work. so if you're reading that page wondering "okay but WHO implements this", it's her. it's always been her. main character energy fr fr 👑

and also, for the record, systemd-system-update-generator implements systemd.generator(7) — so she plays by all the generator rules and conventions, she's a well-behaved icon like that. ✨

ngl this is one of those tiny pages where every single line is load-bearing, so if you skimmed, go back, there were only like two paragraphs 💀

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• systemd(1)
• systemd.special(7)

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and that's the whole page, babe 💜 this was systemd-system-update-generator, from systemd 262.1 — go forth, understand generators, and slay 💅🎀🦋