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

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mon, 13.02.12 23:21, Michael Olbrich (m.olbrich at pengutronix.de) wrote:

> 
> 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.

Yes, we will keep this option in. We are aware of the cross-compilation
problems, and we'll not try to make that harder than it already is.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.