Porting systemd To New Distributions HOWTO: You need to make the follow changes to adapt systemd to your distribution: 1) Find the right configure parameters for: --with-rootprefix= --with-sysvinit-path= --with-sysvrcnd-path= --with-rc-local-script-path-start= --with-rc-local-script-path-stop= --with-kbd-loadkeys= --with-kbd-setfont= --with-tty-gid= 2) Try it out. Play around with 'systemd --test --system' for a test run of systemd without booting. This will read the unit files and print the initial transaction it would execute during boot-up. This will also inform you about ordering loops and suchlike. CONTRIBUTING UPSTREAM: We do generally no longer accept distribution-specific patches to systemd upstream. If you have to make changes to systemd's source code to make it work on your distribution: unless your code is generic enough to be generally useful, we are unlikely to merge it. Please always consider adopting the upstream defaults. If that is not possible, please maintain the relevant patches downstream. Thank you for understanding.