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1 | HACKING ON SYSTEMD |
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3 | We welcome all contributions to systemd. If you notice a bug or a missing | |
4 | feature, please feel invited to fix it, and submit your work as a github Pull | |
5 | Request (PR): | |
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7 | https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/new | |
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9 | Please make sure to follow our Coding Style when submitting patches. See | |
10 | CODING_STYLE for details. Also have a look at our Contribution Guidelines: | |
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12 | https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md | |
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14 | When adding new functionality, tests should be added. For shared functionality |
15 | (in src/basic and src/shared) unit tests should be sufficient. The general | |
16 | policy is to keep tests in matching files underneath src/test, | |
17 | e.g. src/test/test-path-util.c contains tests for any functions in | |
18 | src/basic/path-util.c. If adding a new source file, consider adding a matching | |
19 | test executable. For features at a higher level, tests in src/test/ are very | |
20 | strongly recommended. If that is no possible, integration tests in test/ are | |
21 | encouraged. | |
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23 | Please always test your work before submitting a PR. For many of the components |
24 | of systemd testing is straight-forward as you can simply compile systemd and | |
25 | run the relevant tool from the build directory. | |
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27 | For some components (most importantly, systemd/PID1 itself) this is not | |
28 | possible, however. In order to simplify testing for cases like this we provide | |
29 | a set of "mkosi" build files directly in the source tree. "mkosi" is a tool for | |
30 | building clean OS images from an upstream distribution in combination with a | |
31 | fresh build of the project in the local working directory. To make use of this, | |
32 | please acquire "mkosi" from https://github.com/systemd/mkosi first, unless your | |
33 | distribution has packaged it already and you can get it from there. After the | |
34 | tool is installed it is sufficient to type "mkosi" in the systemd project | |
35 | directory to generate a disk image "image.raw" you can boot either in | |
36 | systemd-nspawn or in an UEFI-capable VM: | |
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38 | # systemd-nspawn -bi image.raw | |
39 | ||
40 | or: | |
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44 | Every time you rerun the "mkosi" command a fresh image is built, incorporating | |
45 | all current changes you made to the project tree. | |
46 | ||
47 | Alternatively, you may install the systemd version from your git check-out | |
48 | directly on top of your host system's directory tree. This mostly works fine, | |
49 | but of course you should know what you are doing as you might make your system | |
50 | unbootable in case of a bug in your changes. Also, you might step into your | |
51 | package manager's territory with this. Be careful! | |
52 | ||
53 | And never forget: most distributions provide very simple and convenient ways to | |
54 | install all development packages necessary to build systemd. For example, on | |
55 | Fedora the following command line should be sufficient to install all of | |
56 | systemd's build dependencies: | |
57 | ||
58 | # dnf builddep systemd | |
59 | ||
60 | Putting this all together, here's a series of commands for preparing a patch | |
61 | for systemd (this example is for Fedora): | |
62 | ||
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63 | $ sudo dnf builddep systemd # install build dependencies |
64 | $ sudo dnf install mkosi # install tool to quickly build images | |
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65 | $ git clone https://github.com/systemd/systemd.git |
66 | $ cd systemd | |
67 | $ vim src/core/main.c # or wherever you'd like to make your changes | |
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68 | $ meson build # configure the build |
69 | $ ninja -C build # build it locally, see if everything compiles fine | |
70 | $ ninja -C build test # run some simple regression tests | |
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71 | $ sudo mkosi # build a test image |
72 | $ sudo systemd-nspawn -bi image.raw # boot up the test image | |
73 | $ git add -p # interactively put together your patch | |
74 | $ git commit # commit it | |
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75 | $ git push REMOTE HEAD:refs/heads/BRANCH |
76 | # where REMOTE is your "fork" on github | |
77 | # and BRANCH is a branch name. | |
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02263eb7 | 79 | And after that, head over to your repo on github and click "Compare & pull request" |
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81 | Happy hacking! |