X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=15afb2cf95de36106e34798727f18a518fe050a1;hp=a183cb364f7eb3958eede5d4cca09e28438ef0e7;hb=8278f06953f5339646e5ff98900321f1525c0a21;hpb=21bc923aa35d455cdef1607eb7022608c705c9f3 diff --git a/README b/README index a183cb364..15afb2cf9 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -26,9 +26,12 @@ BUG REPORTS: AUTHOR: Lennart Poettering with major support from Kay Sievers +LICENSE: + GPLv2+ for all code, except sd-daemon.[ch] which is MIT + REQUIREMENTS: - Linux kernel >= 2.6.30 (with devtmpfs, cgroups; optional but strongly recommended: autofs4, ipv6) - libudev >= 163 + Linux kernel >= 2.6.39 (with devtmpfs, cgroups; optional but strongly recommended: autofs4, ipv6) + libudev >= 172 dbus >= 1.4.0 libcap gtk+ >= 2.20 (optional) @@ -47,6 +50,7 @@ REQUIREMENTS: automake autoconf libtool + gperf make, gcc, and similar tools During runtime you need the following dependencies: @@ -56,6 +60,19 @@ REQUIREMENTS: plymouth (optional) dracut (optional) + When systemd-hostnamed is used it is strongly recommended to + install nss-myhostname to ensure that in a world of + dynamically changing hostnames the hostname stays resolveable + under all circumstances. In fact, systemd-hostnamed will warn + if nss-myhostname is not installed. Packagers are encouraged to + add a dependency on nss-myhostname to the package that + includes systemd-hostnamed. + + Note that D-Bus can link against libsystemd-login.so, which + results in a cyclic build dependency. To accomodate for this + please build D-Bus without systemd first, then build systemd, + then rebuild D-Bus with systemd support. + WARNINGS: systemd will warn you during boot if /etc/mtab is not a symlink to /proc/mounts. Please ensure that /etc/mtab is a @@ -63,7 +80,7 @@ WARNINGS: systemd will warn you during boot if /usr is on a different file system than /. While in systemd itself very little will - break if /usr is on a seperate partition many of its + break if /usr is on a separate partition many of its dependencies very likely will break sooner or later in one form or another. For example udev rules tend to refer to binaries in /usr, binaries that link to libraries in /usr or @@ -71,3 +88,16 @@ WARNINGS: breakages are not always directly visible systemd will warn about this, since this kind of file system setup is not really supported anymore by the basic set of Linux OS components. + + For more information on this issue consult + http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken + +ENGINEERING AND CONSULTING SERVICES: + ProFUSION offers professional + engineering and consulting services for systemd for embedded + and other use. Please contact Gustavo Barbieri + for more information. + + Disclaimer: This notice is not a recommendation or official + endorsement. However, ProFUSION's upstream work has been very + beneficial for the systemd project.