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1systemd System and Session Manager
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3DETAILS:
4 http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd.html
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6WEB SITE:
7 http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd
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9GIT:
10 git://anongit.freedesktop.org/systemd
11 ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/systemd
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13GITWEB:
14 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/
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16MAILING LIST:
17 http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
18 http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-commits
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20IRC:
21 #systemd on irc.freenode.org
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23BUG REPORTS:
24 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=systemd
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26AUTHOR:
27 Lennart Poettering with major support from Kay Sievers
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29LICENSE:
30 GPLv2+ for all code, except sd-daemon.[ch] which is MIT
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31cee6f6 32REQUIREMENTS:
a63599ed 33 Linux kernel >= 2.6.39 (with devtmpfs, cgroups; optional but strongly recommended: autofs4, ipv6)
ae446765 34 libudev >= 172
c1c8ca81 35 dbus >= 1.4.0
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36 libcap
37 gtk+ >= 2.20 (optional)
38 PAM >= 1.1.2 (optional)
39 libcryptsetup (optional)
40 libaudit (optional)
41 libselinux (optional)
42 tcpwrappers (optional)
43 libnotify (optional)
44
45 When you build from git you need the following additional dependencies:
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c1c8ca81 47 vala >= 0.10
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48 docbook-xsl
49 xsltproc
50 automake
51 autoconf
52 libtool
b62cfcea 53 gperf
21bc923a 54 make, gcc, and similar tools
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56 During runtime you need the following dependencies:
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c1c8ca81 58 util-linux > v2.18 (requires fsck -l, agetty -s)
21bc923a 59 sulogin (from sysvinit-tools, optional but recommended)
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60 plymouth (optional)
61 dracut (optional)
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63 When systemd-hostnamed is used it is strongly recommended to
64 install nss-myhostname to ensure that in a world of
65 dynamically changing hostnames the hostname stays resolveable
66 under all circumstances. In fact, systemd-hostnamed will warn
67 if nss-myhostname is not installed. Packagers are encouraged to
68 add a dependency on nss-myhostname to the package that
69 includes systemd-hostnamed.
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71 Note that D-Bus can link against libsystemd-login.so, which
72 results in a cyclic build dependency. To accomodate for this
73 please build D-Bus without systemd first, then build systemd,
74 then rebuild D-Bus with systemd support.
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76WARNINGS:
77 systemd will warn you during boot if /etc/mtab is not a
78 symlink to /proc/mounts. Please ensure that /etc/mtab is a
79 proper symlink.
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81 systemd will warn you during boot if /usr is on a different
82 file system than /. While in systemd itself very little will
ed1c99fc 83 break if /usr is on a separate partition many of its
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84 dependencies very likely will break sooner or later in one
85 form or another. For example udev rules tend to refer to
86 binaries in /usr, binaries that link to libraries in /usr or
87 binaries that refer to data files in /usr. Since these
88 breakages are not always directly visible systemd will warn
89 about this, since this kind of file system setup is not really
90 supported anymore by the basic set of Linux OS components.
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92 For more information on this issue consult
93 http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken
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95ENGINEERING AND CONSULTING SERVICES:
96 ProFUSION <http://profusion.mobi> offers professional
97 engineering and consulting services for systemd for embedded
98 and other use. Please contact Gustavo Barbieri
99 <barbieri@profusion.mobi> for more information.
100
101 Disclaimer: This notice is not a recommendation or official
102 endorsement. However, ProFUSION's upstream work has been very
103 beneficial for the systemd project.