Enable no conflict installation mode

Created on 12 September 2016, over 8 years ago
Updated 6 March 2025, about 1 month ago

Problem/Motivation

Core's configuration install API prevents enabling an extension that provides any configuration item that already exists on the site.

This behaviour is a sensible default, but there are certain use cases it interferes with, including:

  • Install a new module providing configuration on the originating site.
  • Install a module providing configuration on a site installed with an install profile that already provided configuration in the module.

Proposed resolution

Introduce a configurable option to allow reprovision of configuration.

TBD: in the case that configuration is reprovided, what of the following is the expected default?

  • The existing configuration in the active storage is retained unaltered.
  • The reprovided configuration overwrites what's in the active storage.
  • The reprovided configuration is merged into the active storage in such a way as to respect customizations.

Remaining tasks

User interface changes

API changes

Data model changes

✨ Feature request
Status

Active

Version

3.0

Component

Code

Created by

πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦Canada nedjo

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