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@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ GITWEB: MAILING LIST: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel - http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-commits IRC: #systemd on irc.freenode.org @@ -36,8 +35,8 @@ LICENSE: - except src/udev/* which is (currently still) GPLv2, GPLv2+ REQUIREMENTS: - Linux kernel >= 3.7 - Linux kernel >= 3.8 for Smack support + Linux kernel >= 3.12 + Linux kernel >= 4.2 for unified cgroup hierarchy support Kernel Config Options: CONFIG_DEVTMPFS @@ -80,6 +79,7 @@ REQUIREMENTS: CONFIG_TMPFS_XATTR CONFIG_{TMPFS,EXT4,XFS,BTRFS_FS,...}_POSIX_ACL CONFIG_SECCOMP + CONFIG_SECCOMP_FILTER (required for seccomp support) CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE (for the kcmp() syscall) Required for CPUShares= in resource control unit settings @@ -89,10 +89,6 @@ REQUIREMENTS: Required for CPUQuota= in resource control unit settings CONFIG_CFS_BANDWIDTH - For systemd-bootchart, several proc debug interfaces are required: - CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS - CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG - For UEFI systems: CONFIG_EFIVAR_FS CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION @@ -122,8 +118,9 @@ REQUIREMENTS: glibc >= 2.16 libcap - libmount >= 2.20 (from util-linux) - libseccomp >= 1.0.0 (optional) + libmount >= 2.27.1 (from util-linux) + (util-linux *must* be built with --enable-libmount-force-mountinfo) + libseccomp >= 2.3.1 (optional) libblkid >= 2.24 (from util-linux) (optional) libkmod >= 15 (optional) PAM >= 1.1.2 (optional) @@ -144,7 +141,7 @@ REQUIREMENTS: During runtime, you need the following additional dependencies: - util-linux >= v2.26 required + util-linux >= v2.27.1 required dbus >= 1.4.0 (strictly speaking optional, but recommended) dracut (optional) PolicyKit (optional) @@ -161,7 +158,6 @@ REQUIREMENTS: gperf python (optional) python-lxml (optional, but required to build the indices) - sphinx (optional) The build system is initialized with ./autogen.sh. A tar ball can be created with: @@ -173,12 +169,6 @@ REQUIREMENTS: under all circumstances. In fact, systemd-hostnamed will warn if nss-myhostname is not installed. - To build HTML documentation for python-systemd using sphinx, - please first install systemd (using 'make install'), and then - invoke sphinx-build with 'make sphinx-<target>', with <target> - being 'html' or 'latexpdf'. If using DESTDIR for installation, - pass the same DESTDIR to 'make sphinx-html' invocation. - USERS AND GROUPS: Default udev rules use the following standard system group names, which need to be resolvable by getgrnam() at any time, @@ -208,11 +198,11 @@ USERS AND GROUPS: Similarly, the name resolution daemon requires the "systemd-resolve" system user and group to exist. - Similarly, the kdbus dbus1 proxy daemon requires the - "systemd-bus-proxy" system user and group to exist. + Similarly, the coredump support requires the + "systemd-coredump" system user and group to exist. NSS: - systemd ships with three NSS modules: + systemd ships with four glibc NSS modules: nss-myhostname resolves the local hostname to locally configured IP addresses, as well as "localhost" to @@ -221,15 +211,22 @@ NSS: nss-resolve enables DNS resolution via the systemd-resolved DNS/LLMNR caching stub resolver "systemd-resolved". - nss-mymachines enables resolution of all local containers - registered with machined to their respective IP addresses. + nss-mymachines enables resolution of all local containers registered + with machined to their respective IP addresses. It also maps UID/GIDs + ranges used by containers to useful names. - To make use of these NSS modules, please add them to the - "hosts: " line in /etc/nsswitch.conf. The "resolve" module - should replace the glibc "dns" module in this file. + nss-systemd enables resolution of all dynamically allocated service + users. (See the DynamicUser= setting in unit files.) - The three modules should be used in the following order: + To make use of these NSS modules, please add them to the "hosts:", + "passwd:" and "group:" lines in /etc/nsswitch.conf. The "resolve" + module should replace the glibc "dns" module in this file (and don't + worry, it chain-loads the "dns" module if it can't talk to resolved). + The four modules should be used in the following order: + + passwd: compat mymachines systemd + group: compat mymachines systemd hosts: files mymachines resolve myhostname SYSV INIT.D SCRIPTS: @@ -244,10 +241,6 @@ SYSV INIT.D SCRIPTS: needs to look like, and provide an implementation at the marked places. WARNINGS: - systemd will warn you during boot if /etc/mtab is not a - symlink to /proc/mounts. Please ensure that /etc/mtab is a - proper symlink. - systemd will warn you during boot if /usr is on a different file system than /. While in systemd itself very little will break if /usr is on a separate partition, many of its @@ -276,6 +269,6 @@ WARNINGS: setting. See DISTRO_PORTING for details. ENGINEERING AND CONSULTING SERVICES: - ENDOCODE <https://endocode.com/> offers professional - engineering and consulting services for systemd. Please - contact Chris Kühl <chris@endocode.com> for more information. + Kinvolk (https://kinvolk.io) offers professional engineering + and consulting services for systemd. Please contact Chris Kühl + <chris@kinvolk.io> for more information. |