[systemd-devel] Ensuring that a unit starts before any networking

[Mark Rogers]

On Tue, 30 Jun 2020 at 10:27, Lennart Poettering <mzerqung at 0pointer.de>
wrote:

> Yes, this is a bug in the the distro packaging. Please file a bug
> against your distro, so that they add After=network-pre.target.
>

Will do.


> My educated guess is that, it's not trvial to get this right: we
> document what network-pre.target is for in systemd.special(7) man
> page, but I figure not everyone looks there. And i guess one most know
> a certain level of systemd to understand what this actually means for
> a specific implementation.
>

Fair enough.

>From that, is it reasonable to conclude that this is just an omission that
has no potential negative effects from being fixed? I can't see any reason
why adding After=network-pre.target would have direct a negative impact
(it's plausible that on some systems it could subtly alter startup ordering
and expose a bug that was previously hidden by luck, but that's not a
reason to avoid doing it) and so there is no good reason not to do this,
but my knowledge of this isn't adequate to make an informed statement on
that matter. Before I make the argument for it being fixed I want to be
sure of my argument!

-- 
Mark Rogers
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