[systemd-devel] boot problems with recent git and debian

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mon, 04.04.11 15:08, Florian Kriener (florian at kriener.org) wrote:

> 
> On Monday 04 April 2011 02:47:43 Kay Sievers wrote:
> > > Are there plans to support other distributions like debian in
> > > upstream git wholeheartedly or will systemd git only run properly
> > > on fedora? Or am I lumping packaging and development together
> > > here?
> > 
> > It does run on many distros without patching it. But the packaging
> > details, like which service to mask and such, still belong into the
> > distro's package, not in the upstream tarball. Rpm spec files or
> > debian/ directories usually don't belong into source tarballs.
> 
> That makes sense. I'm just sad that I cannot try out systemd git outside 
> of a systemd-nspawn container without breaking the installed version 
> from the debian repositories.

Hmm, why precisely?

I use "make install" on my systemd tree all the time and boot fine with
it, even though this overrides the data from the RPM. That's on Fedora,
but I see no good reason why this shouldn't be possible on Debian too.

Lennart

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