Systemd 214 Changes

[William Harrington]

​http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-June/019925.html

• We temporarily dropped the "-l" switch for fsck invocations,

since they collide with the flock() logic above. util-linux upstream has been changed already to avoid this conflict, and we will readd "-l" as soon as util-linux with this change has been released.

We may want to add this as a patch to our current Systemd 213 Has anyone experienced issues?

• The dependency on libattr has been removed. Since a long

time the extended attribute calls have moved to glibc, and libattr is thus unnecessary.

So we don't need libattr in the final-system build?

There are some new users/groups

This looks like a good upgrade after release or jump to Systemd 215/216.

But we may want to look at the first issue with -l option and fsck.

[William Harrington]

It seems that in the README of Systemd 213:

util-linux >= v2.19 (requires fsck -l, agetty -s),

v2.21 required for tests in test/

I think the problem arises when using fsck -l with util-linux-ng or an earlier version of util-linux. Since our book uses a current version of util-linux, I think this issue can be ignored.

Is anyone else clear about this issue?

[chris@…]

I think this is a non-issue. According to that mailing list message, "fsck -l" only matters with systemd 214 since it adds an flock itself when checking a file system, and that conflicts with the "-l" from fsck, so previous systemd versions should be unaffected. Also, according to util-linux release notes, "-l" was only added to fsck in 2.19.

[William Harrington]

Martin stated he ran into issues with Systemd 213 and his configuration. I think we need to backport the patch from 214 to 213 to reverse the change made in 213 regarding -l switch.