[systemd-devel] systemd unit checker tool

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 03:11:55PM +0200, Przemyslaw Kedzierski wrote:
> On 04/07/2015 07:02 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> >On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 12:36:31PM -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 
> >>Perhaps packaging guidelines should recommend running this command or it
> >>should be part of the macro that packages include that logs warnings when
> >>unit files has any of these issues
> >
> 
> We are interested in a tool that could be run automatically,
> like rpmlint, at finish of build process.
OK, I guess I wasn't clear: current systemd-analyze verify can
be run automatically, but the output cannot be used to automatically
reject a unit.

> It could read and check unit files from one service alone or in
> context of all of them. This should be controlled by options.
> There will be defined a set of rules, for both methods

> Of course should be configurable the source of unit files used to
> build a graph - currently installed in build system, from other
> rpm's,
> maybe from image? (what to do if target systemd will be too new than
> running on build system)
> 
> Is there only possible to check typos and syntax errors in case of
> testing single unit file?
> For example, problems like these: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2011-March/001800.html

Not currently, but I'm sure this could be added without much hassle.

Zbyszek