[systemd-devel] [HEADS-UP] Support for /dev/os-release now kinda mandatory

[Michael Olbrich]

Hi,

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 06:21:32PM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> just wanted to let everybody know that support of /etc/os-release is now
> (kinda) mandatory in your distribution if you want to run systemd >= 43
> on it, as we have stripped support for the old per-distro files in
> git. This means that:
> 
> a) unless you provide /etc/os-release in your distribution the build
> system will not detect your distro automatically anymore. You can work
> around this by using --with-distro= on the configure line.

This configure will not be removed unless there is no disto specific code
left, right? When cross-compiling for embedded systems the distribution of
the build host is rarely the one systemd is built for.
So please keep such things in mind when changing the build system.

Regards,
Michael

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