Systemd 197 released [LWN.net]

Systemd 197 released

Posted Jan 9, 2013 13:17 UTC (Wed) by sorpigal (subscriber, #36106)
In reply to: Systemd 197 released by zdzichu
Parent article: Systemd 197 released

So, based on that, it seems to me that the changes are:

Hostname will be read from /etc/hostname instead of

/etc/sysconfig/network (Mandriva/Mageia, ALT)
/etc/HOSTNAME (Slackware)
/etc/conf.d/hostname (Gentoo)

Locale information will be read from /etc/locale.conf instead of

/etc/sysconfig/i18n (Mandriva/Mageia, ALT)
/etc/sysconfig/language (SuSE)
/etc/default/locale (Debian, Angstrom)
/etc/profile.env (Gentoo)
/proc/cmdline (Fedora: locale.LANG now required, won't read just LANG)

Time zone information will be read from /etc/localtime instead of

/etc/timezone (Debian)

Strangely it still reads /etc/timezone on Debian, but does not write it (?)

Console/keyboard config will be read from /etc/vconsole.conf instead of

/etc/sysconfig/keyboard (SuSE, ALT, Mandriva/Mageia)
/etc/sysconfig/console (SuSE)
/etc/sysconfig/consolefont (ALT, Gentoo)
/etc/rc.conf (Gentoo)
/etc/conf.d/keymaps (Gentoo)
/etc/sysconfig/i18n (Mandriva/Mageia)
/etc/sysconfig/console/default.kmap (Mandriva/Mageia)

I think that's everything, and it's a bit of a mess as-is since some of these files are in slightly different formats even if the path is the same.

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Systemd 197 released

Posted Jan 9, 2013 15:36 UTC (Wed) by Zack (guest, #37335) [Link]

"Ah, no, it's very distribution-agnostic. It's just, you know, that some of these _other_ distributions are simply not agnostic enough to run the software on."

On the upside though, once package management gets integrated, we'll finally have an answer as to whether 'deb or rpm' constitutes the "one true way".

Systemd 197 released

Posted Jan 9, 2013 17:31 UTC (Wed) by james (subscriber, #1325) [Link]

One thing you missed is this:

If downstream distributions want to maintain compatibility with their old configuration files, they are welcome to do so, but need to maintain this as patches downstream. The burden needs to be on the distributions to maintain differences here. Our suggestion however is to just convert the old configuration files on upgrade, as multiple distributions already do.

Systemd 197 released

Posted Jan 9, 2013 17:41 UTC (Wed) by sorpigal (subscriber, #36106) [Link]

I wouldn't call that "missed" since it's essentially in the summary anyway:

We recommend distributions to simply adopt the configuration files everybody else uses now and convert the old configuration from packaging scripts. Most distributions already did that. If that's not possible or desirable, distributions are welcome to forward port the specific pieces of code locally from the git history.

I was listing specifics that weren't in the summary.