Less 568 properly shows urlified strings.
Putative NEWS entry:
* Urlification is now enabled by default even when a pager is used.
Previously it was disabled, because less would not show such markup
properly. This has been fixed in less 568.
Please either upgrade less, or use SYSTEMD_URLIFY=0 to disable the
feature.
We removed support for foreign services (and ntp-units.d/) in b72ddf0f4.
Support for foreign services was added back in 5d280742, but through an
environment variable.
The problem with the env var approach is that it only works as a mechanism
to select one item, and doesn't work nicely as a mechinism to create a list
of items through drop-ins (because the env var can be easily overridden, but not
extended). Having a list of "ntp providers" is important to be able to reliably disable
all of them when that is requested.
Another problem is that nobody ever bothered to care about our new "standard".
ntp-units.d/ is a nice simple format that works and is already supported by
chrony and ntpd and timedatex. If we were to introduce and ask people to follow
a new standard, there should be some good reason for this. The idea with env
vars has lower functionality, requires systemd-specific syntax. We should just
re-adopt the format that we originally introduced and that seems to work for
everyone, and more on to more interesting problems.
Fixes#10256.
What works:
systemd-analyze cat-config systemd/system-preset
systemd-analyze cat-config systemd/user-preset
systemd-analyze cat-config tmpfiles.d
systemd-analyze cat-config sysusers.d
systemd-analyze cat-config systemd/sleep.conf
systemd-analyze cat-config systemd/user.conf
systemd-analyze cat-config systemd/system.conf
systemd-analyze cat-config udev/udev.conf
(and other .conf files)
systemd-analyze cat-config udev/rules.d
systemd-analyze cat-config environment.d
systemd-analyze cat-config environment
Directories may be specified with the trailing dash or not.
The caveat is that for user configuration, systemd and other tools also look
at ~/.config/. It would be nice to support this, but this patch doesn't.
"cat-config --user" is rejected, and we may allow it in the future and then
extend the search path with directories under ~/.config.
What doesn't work (and probably shouldn't because those files cannot be
meaningfully concatenated):
systemd-analyze cat-config systemd/system (.service, .slice, .socket, ...)
systemd-analyze cat-config systemd/user
systemd-analyze cat-config systemd/network (.network, .link, and .dnssd)
The hardcoding of information about paths in this manner is a bit ugly, but
OTOH, it is not too onerous, and at least we have one place where all the
schemes are "documented" through code. It'll make us think twice before adding
yet another slightly different scheme.
