Extra services during offline upgrade
Extra services during offline upgrade
Posted Nov 28, 2025 12:10 UTC (Fri) by neverpanic (subscriber, #99747)In reply to: Extra services during offline upgrade by DemiMarie
Parent article: APT Rust requirement raises questions
AFAIR, the "offline" upgrade really is just a special systemd target that gets activated when a specific symlink exists in the rootfs, and a successful update deletes that symlink.
So, yes, you can run extra services by making sure your systemd service file is configured to start in that target.