Hello Michael,
On Wed 07 Oct 2020 at 09:53PM +02, Michael Biebl wrote:
> A small update here:
> v246 provides a build switch -Dstandalone-binaries=true:
> `
> option('standalone-binaries', type : 'boolean', value : 'false',
> description : 'also build standalone versions of supported binaries')
> `
>
> Atm, those supported binaries are systemd-tmpfiles and systemd-sysusers.
> Those binaries do not link against libsystemd-shared and have minimal
> dependencies.
>
> Fedora decided to ship those binaries in separate binary packages named
> systemd-standalone-sysusers and systemd-standalone-tmpfiles, which
> conflict with the main systemd package, i.e. the main systemd package
> will continue to ship systemd-tmpfiles and systemd-sysusers linking
> against libsystemd-shared.
>
> I like this approach and think we should do the same in Debian.
> Users, which have the full systemd package installed don't have any
> negative side effects, which could result from splitting out
> systemd-tmpfiles/systemd-sysusers and libsystemd-shared.
>
> Restricted/non-systemd environments, like containers, can use
> systemd-standalone-sysusers and systemd-standalone-tmpfiles with minimal
> dependencies.
>
> We could debate whether systemd-standalone-tmpfiles and
> systemd-standalone-sysusers should be provided by a single binary
> package, but since Fedora has already done this split this way, I would
> simply follow here and use the same binary package names.
> The relevant Fedora PR is
> https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/systemd/pull-request/27 fwiw.
>
> Thankfully, -Dstandalone-binaries=true doesn't require a separate, third
> build variant (as with the udeb flavour), so build times shouldn't go up.
>
> If there are no objections to this approach I would proceed and
> implement it like this:
> - Build systemd with -Dstandalone-binaries=true
> - Install the standalone binaries in binary packages named
> systemd-standalone-sysusers and systemd-standalone-tmpfiles
> - Those binaries packages would only ship /bin/systemd-sysusers resp.
> /bin/systemd-tmpfiles and have a Conflicts/Replaces: systemd
From an ftpteam perspective it would probably be preferable to have a
single systemd-standalone binary package which could, if you wanted,
have Provides: systemd-standalone-sysusers and systemd-standalone-tmpfiles.
Otherwise, LGTM.
--
Sean Whitton
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