[Dev] notsystemd v234.1 release announcement
Luke Shumaker
lukeshu at lukeshu.com
Fri Sep 15 18:30:46 GMT 2017
I am pleased to announce the 4th release of "notsystemd", v234.1.
notsystemd is a project to turn the various components of systemd into
independent pieces that can be used no matter which software is used
for PID 1; in a similar spirit to eudev or elogind.
This release is almost identical to 233.1, but has been updated for
systemd 234. This brings the exciting change that Meson is now a
supported alternative to the GNU Autotools when building notsystemd.
It also brings some changes to how systemd-npawn behaves.
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| Notice:
|
| - The default behavior of `systemd-nspawn --register=no` has
| changed. Non-systemd users will probably wish to start using
| `systemd-nspawn --register=no --keep-unit` (and some systemd users
| will as well).
|
| - notsystemd's nspawn likely has issues with resource-control when
| using cgroup v2. This potential bug has not yet been fully
| investigated. It has likely been present in all versions of
| notsystemd. However, this is of slightly more concern now, as
| OpenRC gained support for cgroup v2 yesterday.
|
| I have chosen to go ahead and release v234.1 despite this issue,
| since (1) it probably in all previous releases as well, and it
| wasn't an issue then, (2) Parabola's systemd users aren't using
| cgroup v2 resource-control unless they went out of their way to
| set systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=on on the kernel command
| line, and (3) OpenRC users aren't using cgroup v2 unless they are
| manually installing from OpenRC's git.
|
At a minimum, the following utilities from notsystemd should be
functional on non-systemd systems:
systemd-nspawn
systemd-machine-id-setup
systemd-tmpfiles
systemd-sysusers
The sources are at https://repo.parabola.nu/other/notsystemd/
Pre-built packages have been released to the [libre] repository for
Parabola GNU/Linux-libre.
--
Happy hacking,
~ Luke Shumaker
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