Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] systemd: update to 261 and be compatible with rhel8

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, 2026-07-02 at 13:19 +0000, Daniel Turull wrote:
> On Thu, 2026-07-02 at 13:03 +0200, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> > On Thu, 2 Jul 2026 at 11:55, Mathieu Dubois-Briand
> > <mathieu.dubois-briand@bootlin.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > I suspect we had the same issue with v2, we just have been a bit
> > > (un)lucky as it never ran on a Debian 11 worker.
> > 
> > Debian 11 has host glibc that is too old for systemd. There are
> > other
> > distros that use an even older glibc, and they do not fail because
> > they use buildtools. So we need to adjust the autobuilder to start
> > using buildtools on debian 11 as well.
> > 
> > Alex
> 
> Yes, I can reproduce th problems with glibc on debian 11.
> 
> I have tested inside a debian 11 container and using buildtools-
> extendend-tarball should fix the issue.

If we start putting buildtools everywhere, we may as well just stop
testing on most of the distros :(.

I'm already worried about the implications of buildtools on RHEL9
derivatives :(.

Cheers,

Richard