Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/systemd: Bump version to 261

[Julien Olivain via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>]

Hi Jarkko,

Thanks for the patch.

On 22/06/2026 00:43, Jarkko Sakkinen via buildroot wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>

systemd is not a trivial package to bump, when updating its
major version.

Could you add at least a link to the upstream NEWS file in the commit 
log:
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/v261/NEWS
and summarize what are the important changes relevant to Buildroot,
since the previous v258.7 version?

See for example the last major bump for example:
https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/-/commit/c38d7326e093f45252c01e241d0faf6b04023e02

> ---
>  package/systemd/systemd.hash | 2 +-
>  package/systemd/systemd.mk   | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/package/systemd/systemd.hash 
> b/package/systemd/systemd.hash
> index e96d3ba7ad..1c82877a4a 100644
> --- a/package/systemd/systemd.hash
> +++ b/package/systemd/systemd.hash
> @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
>  # sha256 locally computed
> -sha256  
> 6bd311c25f00d634ae3b4544d582e27df0d4166e6ba3d403b18b3129d7f44cae  
> systemd-258.7.tar.gz
> +sha256  
> f1c2e6a0d19ea5cae946386eb288432de12f3c6b7730cdb0d2a06f8ab8e3f8dc  
> systemd-261.tar.gz
>  sha256  
> ac4985facb553559981f507982444d779115e3e3a4c8b7847ae956198490c1b3  
> LICENSE.GPL2
>  sha256  
> 6d9bb3b7fc818a8facc4cc296060a0883fef8710d6498f86165335846e82ee9d  
> LICENSE.LGPL2.1
>  sha256  
> c9e7bf5b7c243c719b8b43c36158effb9b54c5e80abc9d82e4b2d4b2a4aa64ad  
> LICENSES/alg-sha1-public-domain.txt

Running "make systemd-legal-info" fails. The license files changed
upstream. Could you update the hashes and summarize what has changed in
the commit log, please?

> diff --git a/package/systemd/systemd.mk b/package/systemd/systemd.mk
> index 3223915d40..9a0b5652e8 100644
> --- a/package/systemd/systemd.mk
> +++ b/package/systemd/systemd.mk
> @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
>  # - Diff sysusers.d with the previous version
>  # - Diff factory/etc/nsswitch.conf with the previous version
>  #   (details are often sprinkled around in README and manpages)
> -SYSTEMD_VERSION = 258.7
> +SYSTEMD_VERSION = 261

The systemd package has a comment describing few checks that are needed
when bumping systemd in Buildroot:
https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/-/blob/2026.05/package/systemd/systemd.mk?ref_type=tags#L7-L21

The first point applies: the kernel version requirement was increased
from 5.4 to 5.10 in:
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/1aeba33d8ffcc4882566881420e1106c9dff61f3

This change should be reflected at least in:
package/systemd/Config.in (BR2_PACKAGE_SYSTEMD depends and comments)
and
system/Config.in (BR2_INIT_SYSTEMD)

You can review changes running the command in the systemd repository:
git diff v258.7..v261 -- README

This is also observable by running the Buildroot runtime testsuite for
systemd:
https://gitlab.com/jolivain/buildroot/-/pipelines/2652633093

You can run it locally with the command:

utils/docker-run support/testing/run-tests \
     -k -d dl -o output_folder tests.init.test_systemd

systemd also received new meson build options. You can quickly review
those running the command in systemd repository:
git diff v258.7..v261 -- meson_options.txt

Those should be either included in systemd.mk (conditionally or
unconditionally), or eventually the commit log should describe
why no change is needed for a given option.

>  SYSTEMD_SITE = $(call github,systemd,systemd,v$(SYSTEMD_VERSION))
>  SYSTEMD_LICENSE = \
>  	LGPL-2.1+, \
> --
> 2.47.3

Could you rework this patch and send a v2 please?

Best regards,

Julien.
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