[Buildroot] [pull request] Pull request for branch for-2012.08/systemd

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Hello Dmitry,

Le Mon, 6 Aug 2012 11:14:50 -0400,
Dmitry Golubovsky <golubovsky@gmail.com> a ?crit :

> While still a bit away from this project (and will resume work on
> patches for linux-pam as soon as I can), I think I can also contribute
> into the systemd discussion:
> 
> Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> 
> > Also, it would be good to investigate the newer versions of
> > systemd. If I remember correctly, they integrate udev directly, but
> > is it possible to still have udev separately? This of course will
> > not be for 2012.08, but it would be nice to continue to integrate
> > those technologies into Buildroot.
> 
> My latest systemd patches are for version 186 (don't worry about 185
> in patches themselves: this part of the path is discarded anyway - and
> now there is 187). See here:
> 
> https://gitorious.org/lfa/myroot/trees/master/systemd-pam
> 
> Code layout changed considerably in this new version series (185 and
> up).

This repository is unfortunately a bit unusable: it isn't a fork from
the original Buildroot repository. Why did you create a new repository
that contains just the source code of a package? You should instead
clone the original Buildroot repository, create a branch, and push it
on Gitorious.

Also, your work on PAM+systemd should not be a new systemd-pam package:
it should be integrated (probably with configuration options) into the
existing systemd package.

> Yes, they integrated udev together with systemd, and I do not see any
> option to build udev separately from their source tree: there isn't
> even such repo as udev at freedesktop.
> 
> Now I see that Buildroot gets udev from different source. Could these
> be just two mutually exclusive config options: either to build udev
> with systemd, or udev standalone (and disable building of systemd)?

Now that udev is part of the systemd sources, do they publish new
udev-only release tarballs? I guess not. If I'm correct, then we should
simply remove the 'udev' package, and implement a mechanism to allow
the systemd package to install only udev, or udev+systemd.

Best regards,

Thomas
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