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

[Kay Sievers]

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 15:50, Florian Kriener <florian at kriener.org> wrote:
> On Monday 04 April 2011 15:32:25 Lennart Poettering wrote:
>> > 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.
>
> Because it broke. I can try again and report back what broke exactly.
> But just for the record, have you installed systemd in / or in
> /usr/local? Maybe installing it in /usr/local was the problem.

We configure it the same way the package is configured and install it
from the source tree over the installed package. It's not really "try
it for testing" it's more like "it works, or the box will not boot
anymore". :)

Kay