DISTRO_PORTING

   1 Porting systemd To New Distributions
   2
   3 HOWTO:
   4         You need to make the follow changes to adapt systemd to your
   5         distribution:
   6
   7         1) Find the right configure parameters for:
   8
   9             --with-rootprefix=
  10             --with-sysvinit-path=
  11             --with-sysvrcnd-path=
  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=
  17             --with-ntp-servers=
  18             --with-support-url=
  19
  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
  25
  26 NTP POOL:
  27
  28         By default, timesyncd uses the Google Public NTP servers
  29         time[1-4].google.com. They serve time that uses a leap second
  30         smear, and can be up to .5s off from servers that use stepped
  31         leap seconds.
  32
  33         https://developers.google.com/time/smear
  34
  35         If you prefer to use leap second steps, please register your own
  36         vendor pool at ntp.org and make it the built-in default by
  37         passing --with-ntp-servers= to configure. Registering vendor
  38         pools is free:
  39
  40         http://www.pool.ntp.org/en/vendors.html
  41
  42 PAM:
  43         The default PAM config shipped by systemd is really bare bones.
  44         It does not include many modules your distro might want to enable
  45         to provide a more seamless experience. For example, limits set in
  46         /etc/security/limits.conf will not be read unless you load pam_limits.
  47         Make sure you add modules your distro expects from user services.
  48
  49         Pass --with-pamconfdir=no to ./configure to avoid installing this file
  50         and instead install your own.
  51
  52 CONTRIBUTING UPSTREAM:
  53
  54         We generally do no longer accept distribution-specific
  55         patches to systemd upstream. If you have to make changes to
  56         systemd's source code to make it work on your distribution,
  57         unless your code is generic enough to be generally useful, we
  58         are unlikely to merge it. Please always consider adopting the
  59         upstream defaults. If that is not possible, please maintain
  60         the relevant patches downstream.
  61
  62         Thank you for understanding.