Unable to override disabled option

[Invizory]

Defect

“Adding and overriding configuration” section in the documentation states:

For single-value options like command, working_dir or disabled, the new value replaces the old value.

However, the old value of disabled is not actually replaced if the new value is false.

Version of process-compose:

1.2.0

OS environment:

Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS

Steps or code to reproduce the issue:

process-compose.yml:

version: "0.5"
processes:
  test:
    disabled: true
    command: echo foo

process-compose.override.yml:

processes:
  test:
    disabled: false
    command: echo bar

Run process-compose run test.

Expected result:

bar

Actual result:

[F1bonacc1]

Hi @Invizory,

This is the expected behavior.
See: darccio/mergo#24 (comment)

[raszi]

I understand that the underlying library works like that, but then how can I re-enable a service that was disabled in an override file?

[thenonameguy]

We hacked around the problem with environment variable substitution:

disabled: ${SOME_ENV_VAR}

[F1bonacc1]

I see that some additional comments were added to that thread.
I will reopen this issue, maybe something can be done here after all.

Another temporary workaround can be using vars in your command:

process-compose/process-compose.override.yaml

Lines 173 to 177 in 78d5125

	vars:
	LOCATION: USA
	FTR_A_ENABLED: true
	FTR_B_ENABLED: true
	command: "echo 'Hi {{or .HI 123 }} from {{.LOCATION}} version {{or \"${VERSION}\" .VERSION}} {{if and .FTR_A_ENABLED .FTR_B_ENABLED}}Not Supported{{end}}'"

[raszi]

In the end, we succeeded with the env var substitution as @thenonameguy wrote, but we needed to disable the strict mode because a disabled service was complaining about another disabled dependency of it.