create additional symlinks in /dev/disk/ and /dev/tape:
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_BSG
- Required for PrivateNetwork= and PrivateDevices= in service units:
+ Required for PrivateNetwork= in service units:
CONFIG_NET_NS
- CONFIG_DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES
Note that systemd-localed.service and other systemd units use
- PrivateNetwork and PrivateDevices so this is effectively required.
+ PrivateNetwork so this is effectively required.
Required for PrivateUsers= in service units:
CONFIG_USER_NS
CONFIG_IPV6
CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS
CONFIG_TMPFS_XATTR
- CONFIG_{TMPFS,EXT4,XFS,BTRFS_FS,...}_POSIX_ACL
+ CONFIG_{TMPFS,EXT4_FS,XFS,BTRFS_FS,...}_POSIX_ACL
CONFIG_SECCOMP
CONFIG_SECCOMP_FILTER (required for seccomp support)
CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE (for the kcmp() syscall)
Required for CPUQuota= in resource control unit settings
CONFIG_CFS_BANDWIDTH
+ Required for IPAddressDeny= and IPAddressAllow= in resource control
+ unit settings
+ CONFIG_CGROUP_BPF
+
For UEFI systems:
CONFIG_EFIVAR_FS
CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION
isn't. The next best thing is to make this change through a modprobe.d
drop-in. This is shipped by default, see modprobe.d/systemd.conf.
+ Required for systemd-nspawn:
+ CONFIG_DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES or Linux kernel >= 4.7
+
Note that kernel auditing is broken when used with systemd's
container code. When using systemd in conjunction with
containers, please make sure to either turn off auditing at
libpython (optional)
libidn2 or libidn (optional)
elfutils >= 158 (optional)
+ polkit (optional)
pkg-config
gperf
docbook-xsl (optional, required for documentation)
under all circumstances. In fact, systemd-hostnamed will warn
if nss-myhostname is not installed.
+ nss-systemd must be enabled on systemd systems, as that's required for
+ DynamicUser= to work. Note that we ship services out-of-the-box that
+ make use of DynamicUser= now, hence enabling nss-systemd is not
+ optional.
+
+ Note that the build prefix for systemd must be /usr. -Dsplit-usr=false
+ (which is the default and does not need to be specified) is the
+ recommended setting, and -Dsplit-usr=true should be used on systems
+ which have /usr on a separate partition.
+
Additional packages are necessary to run some tests:
- busybox (used by test/TEST-13-NSPAWN-SMOKE)
- nc (used by test/TEST-12-ISSUE-3171)
even in the very early boot stages, where no other databases
and network are available:
- audio, cdrom, dialout, disk, input, kmem, lp, tape, tty, video
+ audio, cdrom, dialout, disk, input, kmem, kvm, lp, render, tape, tty, video
During runtime, the journal daemon requires the
"systemd-journal" system group to exist. New journal files will
needs to look like, and provide an implementation at the marked places.
WARNINGS:
- 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
- dependencies very likely will break sooner or later in one
- form or another. For example, udev rules tend to refer to
- binaries in /usr, binaries that link to libraries in /usr or
- binaries that refer to data files in /usr. Since these
- breakages are not always directly visible, systemd will warn
- about this, since this kind of file system setup is not really
- supported anymore by the basic set of Linux OS components.
+ systemd will warn during early boot if /usr is not already mounted at
+ this point (that means: either located on the same file system as / or
+ already mounted in the initrd). While in systemd itself very little
+ will break if /usr is on a separate, late-mounted partition, many of
+ its dependencies very likely will break sooner or later in one form or
+ another. For example, udev rules tend to refer to binaries in /usr,
+ binaries that link to libraries in /usr or binaries that refer to data
+ files in /usr. Since these breakages are not always directly visible,
+ systemd will warn about this, since this kind of file system setup is
+ not really supported anymore by the basic set of Linux OS components.
systemd requires that the /run mount point exists. systemd also
requires that /var/run is a symlink to /run.