- HostonlyInitrd reduces the size of the initramfs which speeds up
QEMU boot times.
- Autologin and deleting the root password remove
the manual login step whenever starting the systemd-nspawn container
or QEMU vm.
- NetworkVeth passes --network-veth to the nspawn container when
using mkosi boot and emulates --network-veth with a tap device
and networkd's 80-vm-vt.network builtin network file when using
mkosi qemu. --network-veth makes it easier to test network and
resolved in mkosi's nspawn container or QEMU vm.
It's often useful to have an editor available to edit some random
config file in the final image. Let's install some basic editors
that don't take up too much space.
Let's add a debugger to the mkosi images so we can debug coredumps
from inside mkosi qemu VMs (and hopefully in the future from
mkosi systemd-nspawn containers as well).
--qemu-headless configures the generated image and mkosi's qemu
command to connect to the VM via the serial port. This allows
spawning a qemu VM within the user's terminal instead of spawning
a graphical GTK GUI. --qemu-headless sets TERM, COLUMNS and LINES
in serial-getty@ttyS0.service in the container which makes the
terminal in the VM behave almost equivalent to the one on the host.
This change makes testing changes to systemd using mkosi + QEMU a
lot easier compared to before as commands can be executed in the VM
from the comfort of one's terminal compared to the Linux console
available when running via the GTK GUI.
exec-specifier.service: Executing: /usr/bin/sh -c 'test mkosi-7d5e81c7b81c42338d060a6b98edd44a = $(hostname)'
/usr/bin/sh: hostname: command not found
/usr/bin/sh: line 0: test: mkosi-7d5e81c7b81c42338d060a6b98edd44a: unary operator expected
Received SIGCHLD from PID 7389 (sh).
Child 7389 (sh) died (code=exited, status=2/INVALIDARGUMENT)
gettext provides the hostname binary, but puts it in
/usr/lib/gettext/hostname, which is not part of the default $PATH. Using
inetutils instead puts the binary in /usr/bin/hostname.
/* test compression */
XZ compression finished (38280 -> 11756 bytes, 30.7%)
sh: diff: command not found
Assertion 'system(cmd) == 0' failed at src/journal/test-compress.c:198,
function test_compress_stream(). Aborting.
The journal compression test shells out to diff, so include diffutils as
a BuildPackage on Arch.
Remaining fixes in https://github.com/systemd/mkosi/pull/377
Currently "mkosi --default .mkosi/mkosi.arch" fails to build the image due to pacman error:
"error: Partition /var/tmp/mkosi-xxx/root too full: yyy blocks needed, zzz blocks free"
"error: not enough free disk space"
"error: failed to commit transaction (not enough free disk space)"
So increase the size to 3G.
Before adding this, I got errors about the library being missing such
as:
journalctl: error while loading shared libraries: libqrencode.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Fixes#7367.
This part of the copyright blurb stems from the GPL use recommendations:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.en.html
The concept appears to originate in times where version control was per
file, instead of per tree, and was a way to glue the files together.
Ultimately, we nowadays don't live in that world anymore, and this
information is entirely useless anyway, as people are very welcome to
copy these files into any projects they like, and they shouldn't have to
change bits that are part of our copyright header for that.
hence, let's just get rid of this old cruft, and shorten our codebase a
bit.
Files which are installed as-is (any .service and other unit files, .conf
files, .policy files, etc), are left as is. My assumption is that SPDX
identifiers are not yet that well known, so it's better to retain the
extended header to avoid any doubt.
I also kept any copyright lines. We can probably remove them, but it'd nice to
obtain explicit acks from all involved authors before doing that.
intltool is unnecessary since c81217920e.
But we still need gettext, because we use msgformat to generate .mo files.
(I tried to make meson depend on it, at least in Fedora:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1545926, but that didn't fly,
and in Debian at least meson also has no dependency on the tools used by
its i18n module, so we need to add our own dependency anyway.)
Closes#8192.
Recent systemd compiled in a build root which had libidn2-devel installed would
not run in the default installation root which had just libidn and did not have
libidn2. Since a8a2a0ed64 libidn2-devel (or equivalent) is installed in
the build root. Normally, since we install systemd in the installation root,
all dependencies that are needed for the compiled systemd to run are present,
but libidn2 is a new dependency, so the distro packages would just pull in
libidn, and not libidn2.
Temporily add libdn2 to explicitly specified Packages. We can remove that once
distro-compiled systemds have moved to libind2.
Daan De Meyer