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docs/handbook: Add more details about inactive overrides
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jlebon authored and cgwalters committed Oct 12, 2023
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Expand Up @@ -218,6 +218,19 @@ $ rpm-ostree override replace ./kernel*.rpm
Use e.g. `rpm-ostree override reset podman` to undo the previous change.
If invoked now, nothing will have happened to the booted filesystem tree.

### Inactive overrides

It can happen (especially in a "fast-tracking" workflow) that an override for
a package version becomes redundant (i.e. the package version provided in the
override is the exact same as the one in the base image). In this case, the
override becomes *inactive*. Inactive overrides will appear in the output of
`status -v`.

Inactive overrides become active again once the base changes again and the
package versions differ. They can be reset as described in the previous
section just like active overrides. There is currently no way to have rpm-ostree
automatically 'drop out' inactive overrides once the base "catches up".

### Applying overrides live

Now, suppose that you want to test this change *live*. There are two choices.
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