How do I work around /etc overlay?

[D C]

A pile of stuff broke in my ignition due to the change to use overlay  (issue-1207).

Most of which where file units and I was able to fix them by adding "overwrite: true" to the unit in my butane yml.

But this does not work everywhere.  I want to disable update-engine, but i dont see how.

I've tried the following in butane:

Setting "SERVER=off"  in storage> files> path: /etc/flatcar/update.conf

This seems to prevent the auto-update, but the  daemon is still running.

systemd> units> update-engine.service      setting enabled: false    no effect

I cannot touch /usr/.noupdate,   or /usr/lib/systemd/system/update-engine.service

The examples on flatcar's site seem to indicate that i should be able to do that.  is there a new approach?

[George Angel]

Hello!

I believe you can do this by masking the update-engine.service - https://www.flatcar.org/docs/latest/setup/releases/update-strategies/#disable-automatic-updates

systemd> units> update-engine.service      setting mask: true

https://www.baeldung.com/linux/systemctl-mask-disable - explains the difference between `enable` and `mask`.

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