[systemd-devel] newer systemd for rhel7/centos7

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在 2014年11月20日 星期四 21:35:05，Lukáš Nykrýn 写道：
> "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" píše v Čt 20. 11. 2014 v 18:10 +0000:
> > On 11/20/2014 04:24 PM, Lukáš Nykrýn wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > rhel7 / centos7 is shipped with heavily patched systemd 208, which does
> > > not contain new interesting features and for us it is a backporting
> > > nightmare.
> > > 
> > > I have prepared an experimental repo with newer version of systemd for
> > > epel7. Currently it is based on 217 from Fedora rawhide and final goal
> > > should be 218.
> > > 
> > > If you are interested, here is a COPR build. Feedback and bug reports
> > > are as always highly appreciated.
> > > 
> > > https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/lnykryn/systemd/
> > > 
> > > Lukas
> > 
> > Wont you break your RHEL support if you run this?
> 
> Yes if you will use it on you rhel, it is not supported.
> 
> But this was not my point. I am downstream maintainer and I am just
> thinking if it is possible to rebase systemd in relatively conservative
> distribution. So I wanted to ask upstream where can I except potential
> issues.
> 
> I thought that this could be an interesting topics for upstream because
> I think that no distribution have  tried to do such huge rebase in one
> major version.
> 
> An maybe this could be helpful for other distribution (is debian still
> using 208? :) ).

upgrading systemd won't break anything. Archlinux and Gentoo rebase systemd 
every day.

But keep a mind of udev, this is the one that will break over time ;)

You should scroll over ChangeLogs to read if udev changes its beheavier.
Perhaps the biggest changes that you'll facing is the firmware loading 
mechanism. 

> 
> Lukas
> 
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