You need to make the follow changes to adapt systemd to your
distribution:
- 0) Make your distribution recognized via the autoconf checks
- in configure.ac. Grep for the word "fedora" (case
- insensitively) and you should be able to find the places where
- you need to add/change things.
-
- 1) Patch src/shared/hostname-setup.c so that systemd knows
- where to read your host name from. You might also want to
- update status_welcome() in util.c.
-
- 2) Check the unit files in units/ if they match your
- distribution. Most likely you will have to make additions to
- units/*.m4 and create a copy of units/fedora/ with changes for
- your distribution.
-
- 3) Adjust Makefile.am to register the unit files you added in
- step 2. Also you might need to update the m4 invocation in
- Makefile.am. Grep for the word "fedora" (case insensitively)
- and you should be able to find the places where you need to
- add/change things.
-
- 4) Try it out. Play around with 'systemd --test --system' for
+ 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 are interested in merging your changes upstream, if they
- are for a big, and well-known distribution. Unfortunately we
- don't have the time and resources to maintain
- distribution-specific patches for all distributions on the
- planet, hence please do not send us patches that add systemd
- support for non-mainstream or niche distributions.
- Thank you for understanding.
-
-BE CONSIDERATE:
- We'd like to keep differences between the distributions
- minimal. This both simplifies our maintenance work, as well
- as it helps administrators to move from one distribution to
- another.
+ 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.
- Hence we'd like to ask you to keep your changes minimal, and
- not rename any units without a very good reason (if you need a
- particular name for compatibility reasons, consider using
- alias names via symlinks). Before you make changes that change
- semantics from upstream, please talk to us!
-
- In SysV almost every distribution uses a different
- nomenclature and different locations for the boot-up
- scripts. We'd like to avoid chaos like that with systemd right
- from the beginning. So please, be considerate!
+ Thank you for understanding.
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