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authorOpenShift Merge Robot <openshift-merge-robot@users.noreply.github.com>2020-07-06 09:28:08 -0400
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Merge pull request #6858 from vrothberg/fix-6793
auto-update: clarify systemd-unit requirements
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@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ Note that `podman auto-update` relies on systemd and requires a fully-qualified
This enforcement is necessary to know which image to actually check and pull.
If an image ID was used, Podman would not know which image to check/pull anymore.
+Moreover, the systemd units are expected to be generated with `podman-generate-systemd --new`, or similar units that create new containers in order to run the updated images.
+Systemd units that start and stop a container cannot run a new image.
+
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