Debian reconsiders init-system diversity

Posted Nov 13, 2019 23:28 UTC (Wed) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239)
In reply to: Debian reconsiders init-system diversity by Cyberax
Parent article: Debian reconsiders init-system diversity

Couldn't someone who wanted to support this combination just package a library of functions systemd requires that aren't provided by musl?

Debian reconsiders init-system diversity

Posted Nov 13, 2019 23:34 UTC (Wed) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link] (2 responses)

Not quite.

Systemd also pokes into some glibc-dependent internals (like cpuset) which require small patches into systemd's internals. A third-party library would require inclusion of something like "compat.h" in several systemd c-files.

Debian reconsiders init-system diversity

Posted Nov 14, 2019 9:30 UTC (Thu) by mezcalero (subscriber, #45103) [Link] (1 responses)

We don't really poke around there. Are you referring to the __cpu_mask thing? Well, it's only in a test because we want to check that we handle cpusets larger than glibc's statically sized ones, that's all. It's not in the actual relevant codebase. Send a patch that replaces those tests with something that works without that and we'll merge it.

Debian reconsiders init-system diversity

Posted Nov 14, 2019 19:56 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

Ok, I will do just that. There's also a couple of other smallish changes that I'd like to submit as well, like including if_ether.h explicitly.