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1Porting systemd To New Distributions
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1486dbe1 3HOWTO:
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4 You need to make the follow changes to adapt systemd to your
5 distribution:
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7 1) Find the right configure parameters for:
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9 --with-rootprefix=
10 --with-sysvinit-path=
dee4c244 11 --with-sysvrcnd-path=
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12 --with-rc-local-script-path-start=
13 --with-rc-local-script-path-stop=
14 --with-kbd-loadkeys=
15 --with-kbd-setfont=
16 --with-tty-gid=
2ed3de9c 17 --with-ntp-servers=
b74d0fdf 18 --with-support-url=
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20 2) Try it out. Play around (as an ordinary user) with
21 '/usr/lib/systemd/systemd --test --system' for a test run
22 of systemd without booting. This will read the unit files and
23 print the initial transaction it would execute during boot-up.
24 This will also inform you about ordering loops and suchlike
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26NTP POOL:
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28 By default, timesyncd uses the Google NTP servers
29 time[1-4].google.com. They serve time that is not standards
30 compliant, and can be up to .5s off. Google does not
31 officially support these servers for the broader
32 audience. Distributions and vendors really should not ship
33 OSes or devices with these NTP servers configured. Instead,
34 please register your own vendor pool at ntp.org and make it
35 the built-in default by passing --with-ntp-servers= to
36 configure. Registering vendor pools is free:
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38 http://www.pool.ntp.org/en/vendors.html
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40 Again, if you ship your software or device with the default
41 NTP servers, then you will get served wrong time, and will
42 rely on services that might not be supported for long.
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eb10a764 44CONTRIBUTING UPSTREAM:
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45548321 46 We generally do no longer accept distribution-specific
bc270841 47 patches to systemd upstream. If you have to make changes to
45548321 48 systemd's source code to make it work on your distribution,
19aadacf 49 unless your code is generic enough to be generally useful, we
bc270841 50 are unlikely to merge it. Please always consider adopting the
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51 upstream defaults. If that is not possible, please maintain
52 the relevant patches downstream.
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bc270841 54 Thank you for understanding.