This way we can quickly find the most recent entry, without searching or
traversing entry array chains.
This is relevant later, as it it allows us to quickly determine the most
recent timestamps of each journal file, in a roughly atomic way.
(The one case that is left unchanged is '< <(subcommand)'.)
This way, the style with no gap was already dominant. This way, the reader
immediately knows that ' < ' is a comparison operator and ' << ' is a shift.
In a few cases, replace custom EOF replacement by just EOF. There is no point
in using someting like "_EOL" unless "EOF" appears in the text.
The documentation on moving an existing homedir into a systemd-homed managed
one suggests using rsync(1) with a bunch of flags to preserve as much metadata
as possible: permissions, xattrs, timestamps, etc. The previously suggested
flags were:
rsync -aHAXv --remove-source-files …
… which does include mtimes, but not ctimes and atimes, because -a does not
include those:
--archive, -a archive mode is -rlptgoD (no -A,-X,-U,-N,-H)
This change adds the -N and -U flags to preserve even more file timestamps,
turning the command into:
rsync -aHANUXv --remove-source-files …
The new flags are:
--crtimes, -N preserve create times (newness)
--atimes, -U preserve access (use) times
Let's introduce a common implementation of a function that checks
whether we are booted on a kernel with systemd-stub that has TPM PCR
measurements enabled. Do our own userspace measurements only if we
detect that.
PCRs are scarce and most likely there are projects which already make
use of them in other ways. Hence, instead of blindly stepping into their
territory let's conditionalize things so that people have to explicitly
buy into our PCR assignments before we start measuring things into them.
Specifically bind everything to an UKI that reported measurements.
This was previously already implemented in systemd-pcrphase, but with
this change we expand this to all tools that process PCR measurement
settings.
The env var to override the check is renamed to SYSTEMD_FORCE_MEASURE,
to make it more generic (since we'll use it at multiple places now).
This is not a compat break, since the original env var for that was not
included in any stable release yet.
This was dropped on reviewers' request in the revision that got merged,
but reference in two documents was not updated. Fix it.
Follow-up for: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/25918
This commit adds support for attaching extra metadata to log
messages written to the journal via log.h. We keep track of a
thread local log context in log.c onto which we can push extra
metadata fields that should be logged. Once a field is no longer
relevant, it can be popped again from the log context.
On top of this, we then add macros to allow pushing extra fields
onto the log context.
LOG_CONTEXT_PUSH() will push the provided field onto the log context
and pop the last field from the log context when the current block
ends. LOG_CONTEXT_PUSH_STRV() will do the same but for all fields in
the given strv.
Using the macros is as simple as putting them anywhere inside a block
to add a field to all following log messages logged from inside that
block.
void myfunction(...) {
...
LOG_CONTEXT_PUSH("MYMETADATA=abc");
// Every journal message logged will now have the MYMETADATA=abc
// field included.
}
For convenience, there's also LOG_CONTEXT_PUSHF() to allow constructing
the field to be logged using printf() syntax.
log_context_new()/log_context_free() can be used to attach a log context
to an async operation by storing it in the associated userdata struct.
This is intended to be used with VSOCK, to notify the hypervisor/VMM, eg on the host:
qemu <...> -smbios type=11,value=io.systemd.credential:vmm.notify_socket=vsock:2:1234 -device vhost-vsock-pci,id=vhost-vsock-pci0,guest-cid=42
(vsock:2:1234 -> send to host on vsock port 1234, default is to send to 0 which is
the hypervisor itself)
Also on the host:
$ socat - VSOCK-LISTEN:1234,socktype=5
READY=1
STATUS=Ready.
The text said /dev/tty* as a whole was the VT subsystem and that VT is
not supported in containers.
But that's not accurate as /dev/tty* will match /dev/tty too and that
one device node is special and is not related to VT: it always points to
the current process own controlling tty, regardless what that is.
hence, rewrite /dev/tty* as /dev/tty[0-9]*.
When we dissect images automatically, let's be a bit more conservative
with the file system types we are willing to mount: only mount common
file systems automatically.
Explicit mounts requested by admins should always be OK, but when we do
automatic mounts, let's not permit barely maintained, possibly legacy
file systems.
The list for now covers the four common writable and two common
read-only file systems. Sooner or later we might want to add more to the
list.
Also, it might make sense to eventually make this configurable via the
image dissection policy logic.
-1 was used everywhere, but -EBADF or -EBADFD started being used in various
places. Let's make things consistent in the new style.
Note that there are two candidates:
EBADF 9 Bad file descriptor
EBADFD 77 File descriptor in bad state
Since we're initializating the fd, we're just assigning a value that means
"no fd yet", so it's just a bad file descriptor, and the first errno fits
better. If instead we had a valid file descriptor that became invalid because
of some operation or state change, the other errno would fit better.
In some places, initialization is dropped if unnecessary.
Define new unit parameter (LogFilterPatterns) to filter logs processed by
journald.
This option is used to store a regular expression which is carried from
PID1 to systemd-journald through a cgroup xattrs:
`user.journald_log_filter_patterns`.
This is an octal number. We used the 0 prefix in some places inconsistently.
The kernel always interprets in base-8, so this has no effect, but I think
it's nicer to use the 0 to remind the reader that this is not a decimal number.
So, i think "erofs" is probably the better, more modern alternative to
"squashfs". Many of the benefits don't matter too much to us I guess,
but there's one thing that stands out: erofs has a UUID in the
superblock, squashfs has not. Having an UUID in the superblock matters
if the file systems are used in an overlayfs stack, as overlayfs uses
the UUIDs to robustly and persistently reference inodes on layers in
case of metadata copy-up.
Since we probably want to allow such uses in overlayfs as emplyoed by
sysext (and the future syscfg) we probably should ramp up our erofs game
early on. Hence let's natively support erofs, test it, and in fact
mention it in the docs before squashfs even.
- Mention "/please-review" in the contributing guide
- Remove "needs-rebase" on push
- Don't add "please-review" if a green label is set
- Don't add please-review label to draft PRs
- Add please-review when a PR moves out of draft
Now that the random seed is used on virtualized systems, there's no
point in having a random-seed-mode toggle switch. Let's just always
require it now, with the existing logic already being there to allow not
having it if EFI itself has an RNG. In other words, the logic for this
can now be automatic.
Removing the virtualization check might not be the worst thing in the
world, and would potentially get many, many more systems properly seeded
rather than not seeded. There are a few reasons to consider this:
- In most QEMU setups and most guides on how to setup QEMU, a separate
pflash file is used for nvram variables, and this generally isn't
copied around.
- We're now hashing in a timestamp, which should provide some level of
differentiation, given that EFI_TIME has a nanoseconds field.
- The kernel itself will additionally hash in: a high resolution time
stamp, a cycle counter, RDRAND output, the VMGENID uniquely
identifying the virtual machine, any other seeds from the hypervisor
(like from FDT or setup_data).
- During early boot, the RNG is reseeded quite frequently to account for
the importance of early differentiation.
So maybe the mitigating factors make the actual feared problem
significantly less likely and therefore the pros of having file-based
seeding might outweigh the cons of weird misconfigured setups having a
hypothetical problem on first boot.
Rather than passing seeds up to userspace via EFI variables, pass seeds
directly to the kernel's EFI stub loader, via LINUX_EFI_RANDOM_SEED_TABLE_GUID.
EFI variables can potentially leak and suffer from forward secrecy
issues, and processing these with userspace means that they are
initialized much too late in boot to be useful. In contrast,
LINUX_EFI_RANDOM_SEED_TABLE_GUID uses EFI configuration tables, and so
is hidden from userspace entirely, and is parsed extremely early on by
the kernel, so that every single call to get_random_bytes() by the
kernel is seeded.
In order to do this properly, we use a bit more robust hashing scheme,
and make sure that each input is properly memzeroed out after use. The
scheme is:
key = HASH(LABEL || sizeof(input1) || input1 || ... || sizeof(inputN) || inputN)
new_disk_seed = HASH(key || 0)
seed_for_linux = HASH(key || 1)
The various inputs are:
- LINUX_EFI_RANDOM_SEED_TABLE_GUID from prior bootloaders
- 256 bits of seed from EFI's RNG
- The (immutable) system token, from its EFI variable
- The prior on-disk seed
- The UEFI monotonic counter
- A timestamp
This also adjusts the secure boot semantics, so that the operation is
only aborted if it's not possible to get random bytes from EFI's RNG or
a prior boot stage. With the proper hashing scheme, this should make
boot seeds safe even on secure boot.
There is currently a bug in Linux's EFI stub in which if the EFI stub
manages to generate random bytes on its own using EFI's RNG, it will
ignore what the bootloader passes. That's annoying, but it means that
either way, via systemd-boot or via EFI stub's mechanism, the RNG *does*
get initialized in a good safe way. And this bug is now fixed in the
efi.git tree, and will hopefully be backported to older kernels.
As the kernel recommends, the resultant seeds are 256 bits and are
allocated using pool memory of type EfiACPIReclaimMemory, so that it
gets freed at the right moment in boot.
This is useful to force off fancy unicode glyph use (i.e. use "->"
instead of "→"), which is useful in tests where locales might be
missing, and thus control via $LC_CTYPE is not reliable.
Use this in TEST-58, to ensure the output checks we do aren't confused
by missing these glyphs being unicode or not.
This reverts commit 1f22621ba3.
As described in the reverted commit, we don't want to get rid of the check
completely. But the check requires opting-in by setting SYSTEMD_IN_INITRD=lenient,
which is cumbersome and doesn't seem to actually happen.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2137631 is caused by systemd refusing
to treat the system as an initrd because overlayfs is used. Let's revert this
approach and do something that doesn't require opt-in instead.
I don't think it makes sense to keep support for "SYSTEMD_IN_INITRD=lenient" or
"SYSTEMD_IN_INITRD=auto". To get "auto" behaviour, just unset the option. And
"lenient" will be reimplemented as a better check. Thus the changes to the
option interface are completely reverted.
(s) is just ugly with a vibe of DOS. In most cases just using the normal plural
form is more natural and gramatically correct.
There are some log_debug() statements left, and texts in foreign licenses or
headers. Those are not touched on purpose.
Previously, we'd iterate an entry array from start to end every time
we added an entry offset to it. To speed up this operation, we cache
the last entry array in the chain and how many items it contains.
This allows the addition of an entry to the chain to be done in
constant time instead of linear time as we don't have to iterate
the entire chain anymore every time we add an entry.
To do this, we move EntryItem out of journal-def.h and turn it into
a host only struct in native endian mode so we can still use it to
ship the necessary info around.
Aside from that, the changes are pretty simple, we introduce some
extra functions to access the right field depending on the mode and
convert all the other code to use those functions instead of
accessing the raw fields.
We also drop the unused entry item hash field in compact mode. We
already stopped doing anything with this field a while ago, now we
actually drop it from the format in compact mode.
We also add an environment variable $SYSTEMD_JOURNAL_COMPACT that
can be used to disable compact mode if needed (similar to
$SYSTEMD_JOURNAL_KEYED_HASH).
This adds a new flag in preparation for incompatible journal changes
which will be gated behind this flag. The max file size of journal
files in compact mode is limited to 4 GiB.
The text made it sound like breaking ABI in libsystemd is allowed with good reasons.
In fact, we plan never to do this, so make the language stronger.
Also remind people about distro forums for reporting bugs. Those are probably a
better place than systemd-devel for new users.
Also, add some missing articles and apostrophes, fix URLs, remove repeated phrases,
etc.
If mkosi.kernel/ exists, the mkosi script will try to build a kernel
image from it. We use the architecture defconfig as a base and add
our own extra configuration on top.
We also add some extra tooling to the build image required to build
the kernel and include some documentation in HACKING.md on how to
use this new feature.
To avoid the kernel sources from being copied into the build or
final image (which we don't want because it takes a while), we put
the mkosi.kernel/ directory in .gitignore and use
"SourceFileTransfer=mount" so that the sources are still accessible
in the build image.
The linked filter gives an up-to-date list of pull requests that need review.
(Yes, there's too many.) We used to set 'needs-review' label, but that is
not available to non-members, and also every pull requests which is not labeled
'reviewed/needs-rework'/'ci-fails/needs-rework'/'needs-rebase' can and should
be reviewed.
If this is merged, I'll drop the 'needs-review' label.
In 53c26db4da the meaning of $BOOT was
redefined. I think that's quite problematic, since the concept is
implemented in code and interface of bootctl. Thus, I think we should
stick to the original definition, which is: "where to *place* boot menu
entries" (as opposed to "where to *read* boot menu entries from").
The aforementioned change was done to address two things afaiu:
1. it focussed on a $BOOT as the single place to put boot entries in,
instead of mentioning that both ESP and $BOOT are expected to be
the source
2. it mentioned the /loader/ dir (as location for boot loader resources)
itself as part of the spec, which however only really makes sense in
the ESP. /loader/entries/ otoh makes sense in either the ESP or
$BOOT.
With this rework I try to address these two issues differently:
1. I intend to make clear the $BOOT is the "primary" place to put stuff
in, and is what should be mounted to /boot/.
2. The ESP (if different from $BOOT) is listed as "secondary" source to
read from, and is what should be mounted to /efi/. NB we now make the
distinction between "where to put" (which is single partition) and
"where to read from".
3. This drops any reference of the /loader/ dir witout the /entries/
suffix. Only the full /loader/entries/ dir (and its companion file
/loader/entries.srel) are now mentioned. Thus isolated /loader/
directory hence becomes irrelevant in the spec, and the fact that
sd-boot maintains some files there (and only in the ESP) is kept out
of the spec, because it is irrelevant to other boot loaders.
4. It puts back the suggestion to mount $BOOT to /boot/ and the ESP to
/efi/ (and suggests adding a symlink or bind mount if both are the
same partition). Why? Because the dirs are semantically unrelated:
it's OK and common to have and ESP but no $BOOT, hence putting ESP
inside of a useless, non-existing "ghost" dir /boot/ makes little
sense. More importantly though, because these partitions are
typically backed by VFAT we want to maintain them as an autofs, with
a short idle delay, so that the file systems are unmounted (and thus
fully clean) at almost all times. This doesn't work if they are
nested within each other, as the establishment of the inner autofs
would pin the outer one, making the excercise useless. Now I don't
think the spec should mention autofs (since that is an implementation
detail), but it should arrange things so that this specific, very
efficient, safe and robust implementation can be implemented.
The net result should be easy from an OS perspective:
1. *Put* boot loader entries in /boot/, always.
2. *Read* boot loader entries from both /boot/ and /efi/ -- if these are distinct.
3. The only things we define in the spec are /loader/entries/*.conf and
/EFI/Linux/*.efi in these two partitions (well, and the companion
file /loader/entries.srel
4. /efi/ and /boot/ because not nested can be autofs.
5. bootctl code and interface (in particular --esp-path= and
--boot-path=) match the spec again. `bootctl -x` and `bootctl -p`
will now print the path to $BOOT and ESP again, matching the concepts
in the spec again.
From the sd-boot perspective things are equally easy:
1. Read boot enrties from ESP and XBOOTLDR.
2. Maintain boot loader config/other resources in ESP only.
And that's it.
Fixes: #24247
In all other cases we have the older variant before the newer. And since we
generate some documentation tables from the header, this order is also visible
for users. Let's restore the order. This commit does
4565246911 in a slightly different fashion.
This documents that explicit `Before=`/`After=` dependencies can be
used to selectively override implicit ordering coming from default
dependencies. That allows for more granular control compared to the
already documented `DefaultDependencies=no` option.
The alternative approach came up in a discussion around the ordering
of `boot-complete.target`, so this also adds an explicit suggestion
in that direction to the "Automatic Boot Assessment" documentation.
Ref: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2022-September/048330.html
- Extra memory because ASAN needs it
- The environment variables to make the sanitizers more useful
- LD_PRELOAD because the ASAN DSO needs to be the first in the list
- The sanitizer library packages
- Disable syscall filters because they interfere with ASAN
- Disable systemd-hwdb-update because it's super slow when systemd-hwdb
is built with sanitizers
- Take the value for meson's b_sanitize option from the SANITIZERS
environment variable
This imports credentials also via SMBIOS' "OEM vendor string" section,
similar to the existing import logic from fw_cfg.
Functionality-wise this is very similar to the existing fw_cfg logic,
both of which are easily settable on the qemu command line.
Pros and cons of each:
SMBIOS OEM vendor strings:
- pro: fast, because memory mapped
- pro: somewhat VMM independent, at least in theory
- pro: qemu upstream sees this as the future
- pro: no additional kernel module needed
- con: strings only, thus binary data is base64 encoded
fw_cfg:
- pro: has been supported for longer in qemu
- pro: supports binary data
- con: slow, because IO port based
- con: only qemu
- con: requires qemu_fw_cfg.ko kernel module
- con: qemu upstream sees this as legacy
The "Networking" section has a lonely single document listed right now,
even though the "Concepts" section has two more network related docs.
Move them over, let's end this loneliness.
A few related changes: be explicit that 'main' is the branch we're referring
to. There was a case recently of somebody rebasing on 'master' by mistake.
It's better to be explicit, since 'main' is still not the default for git
(AFAIK).
Also, github seems to send mails about force-pushes, so drop that as a
justification. Commenting about changes that were done is useful even if
github were to send a notification.
And finally, $subject. We do that ourselves, but outside contributors might not
know that that's expected.
The documentations dark-mode background color as
added in #23417 was perceived to be too purple-y [1]
and is therefore replaced by a desaturated black
that is derived from the systemd brand-black using
12% less HSL saturation.
[1] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/23417#issuecomment-1146323820
I reordered the component list to match chronological order: we first install
an entry, then boot it, then the checks happen, etc. Before it was
ordered by "importance", but that is harder to follow.
The boot-counting file-renaming entry-sorting part that the boot
loader implements is moved to the main document. The second document
describes a specific implementation that is provided through systemd
units.
The sorting algorithm is extended to say that bad entries should
be sorted later.
I also added a note that bad entries should be available for booting.
For some reason, the second document said that it applies only to EFI systems.
AFAIK there are no implementations for non-EFI, but the specification should
work just fine, if somebody were to implement it. So that part is dropped.
Fixes#23345.
Sadly, bootctl doesn't implement sorting of boot entries with counting :((((
But I'm leaving that for another PR.
The text used was originally written for everything being on the ESP. It was
later generalized for support XBOOTLDR, and "$BOOT" was introduced to mean
something like "XBOOTLDR if present, the ESP otherwise", and most of the text
was changed to talk about $BOOT. Sadly, this doesn't work, because the two
partitions are not interchangeable. sd-boot loads entries from both partitions,
and its configuration, random-seed, etc. only from the ESP.
The terms are redefined: $BOOT now means either the ESP or the "boot partition"
playing the same role on MBR systems, and $XBOOTLDR is XBOOTLDR.
Like various previous commits, this makes the specification describe our
current implementation.
Also, the let's just accept the common practice of using /boot and /boot/efi.
Since both partitions need to be read to gather configuration, it isn't a
problem that one is mounted underneath the other one. I think having /boot and
/efi is OK, but not better in any measureable way, so let's stop trying to push
people towards this setup.
A note that XBOOTLDR must be on the same disk as ESP is added.
We said "`$BOOT/loader/` is the directory containing all files needed
for Type #1 entries" which is blatantly wrong. And also saying that we
define two directories, /loader and /loader/entries, but only ever defining
the second one was not very consistent.
Instead, let's say that /loader/ is for "boot loader configuration", and
/loader/entries has the snippets. A new section about /<entry-token>/<version>/
is added. This is described as the "recommended layout for additional files".
Also, we said that ID= should be used in the file name, but in fact it
wasn't in the example that was given, and afaik, nobody ever did that. So
this part is reduced to say "kernel version (as returned by `uname -r`,
including the OS identifier)". AFAIK, all distros include some form of
OS identifier in the version, so this should be good enough.
Since we now don't depend on autodetection (e.g. with entry-token and layout
configured), the installed doesn't need to always create /loader/entries and
things will still work. So don't say that the installer needs to create it.
Part of the discussion is moved to the Discussion section.
Overall, this brings the specification more in line with actual practice.
I tried not to introduce any semantic changes, but to reorder the whole
text to be more usable as a reference specification: more sections are
created and the discussion and justifications are moved to the end.
Also, "BIOS" is changed to "firmware" in various places, and other parts
of the text that made sense when this was originally written are now dated
are adjusted. I separated and extended the examples a bit.
The abstract at the top ("TL;DR: Currently there’s no common boot scheme…")
is dropped. It didn't seem to fit anywhere.
Let the table span more than the default content width,
if the table contains alot of data (controlled by width: auto)
(720px is very good for continuous text, but too narrow for tables).
The container class is therefore adapted to put the
width restriction on the elements itself, allowing for
exceptions for individual elements like <table> and
<h1> (which used an offset margin before and is now
streamlined to use a max-width as well).
Also add a striped background to ease reading rows
and allow for horizontal mobile scrolling without
overflowing the entire document, only the table itself.
The format described by this document is used not only for coredumps,
but also for other purposes, so we've outgrown the old title.
A redirect was added based on https://codepo8.github.io/github-redirection-demo/.
I tried to use a relative link, but it's hard to test if it works
before merging.
Co-authored-by: Benjamin Franzke <benjaminfranzke@googlemail.com>
All wiki pages that contain a deprecation banner
pointing to systemd.io or manpages are updated to
point to their replacements directly.
Helpful command for identification of available links:
git grep freedesktop.org/wiki | \
sed "s#.*\(https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki[^ $<'\\\")]*\)\(.*\)#\\1#" | \
sort | uniq
* Avoid traling slash as most links are defined without.
* Always use https:// protocol and www. subdomain
Allows for easier tree-wide linkvalidation
for our migration to systemd.io.
* Use brand-green for demo log messages on the startpage
instead of the default `green` color defined by the browser vendor
(after all, the brand green color is intended to reflect the
boot status output)
* Add a matching blue intro color (mixed using HSL from brand-green
by 55deg hue rotation and 4% lightness)
* Use a defined font-size
(to avoid blurry rendering at 13.33333px, due to font-size: smaller)
* Add possibility for the browser to show horizontal scrollbar
(avoid overflow in mobile view)
Respect the user agent property `prefers-color-scheme` by
rendering the documentation in dark mode, if requested.
Reorganise CSS to store the color palette into CSS variables
and reference these from another set of CSS variables that
are dynamically switched based on the prefers-color-scheme
media query.
Light mode variables stay they same as before,
but to ease color mixing, the current RGB values
have been transformed to HSL (using chrome devtools).
The current body background is now --sd-gray-extralight,
the current body color is now --sd-gray-extradark.
Other gray-variations, needed for dark-mode constrasts
are derived from these colors using HSL lightness shifting.
The systemd brand black color is used as dark mode background
and a matching extralight gray font color has been selected.
The link font-weight is reduced to 400 in dark mode,
as the green color on dark ground becomes to overwhelming
with a bold font.
The systemd logo color is dynamically swapped by using
the special fill value `currentColor` for dark/light-mode
depending parts – as per specification on brand.systemd.io
* Update to rougify 3.26.1 styling
* Adapt background overwrite by removing default background color
and only adding explicit overwrites for syntax error
(error stylings appear for example in json-excerpts –
see HACKING.md – and are therefore hidden by our css)
* Provides a nice introduction to the intro paragraph
* Ensures text of subpages start at the same position as the intro text
on the homepage
=> less visual "jumps" while navigating
The theme color is used on android to style the chrome
browser-ui with a color that suits the webpage.
Use the dark brand color instead of a random default blue color
in order to fit to the rest of the color scheme.
h1 font weight is defined to be 100 but no font-face
definition for weight 100 is included.
The browser will use the nearest available font-weight
instead. As that is 400, we do specify it explicitly now.
From https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/NetworkTarget/.
I changed the order in the page, but didn't change the text too much. Now the
discussion of the different targets is at the top, and they are ordered like
during boot (network-pre.target first, then network.target, and
network-online.target last). The parts about LSB and $network are pushed down a
bit. I think it is still useful to have them, but not as the main entry point
into the discussion. I tried to clean up the grammar and wording a bit.
One meanigful change is that we now don't say that network-online.target means
interfaces are up and IP addresses have been assigned. In other places we were
saying that the actual implementation is provided by
NetworkManager-wait-online.service, so the actual meaning is not under our
control. The text is changed to say "usually".
The last paragraph is new, I think it's good to say that
"dnf-makecache.service" is fine to use "network-online.target".
We used both "qemu" and "QEMU", let's use the lower-case version everywhere
since it's also the name of the binary and the version that people are
most familiar with.
The stuff under test/ is not only for the integeration tests, but also
for various other test-related stuff, so adjust the docs a bit.
There are some file systems mounted below /sys/ that are not actually
sysfs, i.e. are not arranged in a sysfs/kobject style. Let's refuse
those early. (Example, /sys/fs/cgroup/ and similar.)
(Also, let's add an env var for this, so that it can be turned off for
test cases.)
With meson-0.60, meson compile stopped working with some targets:
$ meson compile -C build update-man-rules
ERROR: Can't invoke target `update-man-rules`: ambiguous name. Add target type and/or path: `PATH/NAME:TYPE`
This is obviously a regression in meson, but based on a chat with the
maintainers, it seems that there's some disagreement as to whether 'meson
compile' is useful and how exactly it should work. Since we're already at
meson 0.60.3 and this hasn't been fixed, and people generally don't seem to
consider this an issue, let's return to documenting the usual practice of
'ninja -C build' that just works everywhere.
(Since nobody has raised any fuss in systemd, it means that people are
generally using the shorter form during development too. I only noticed
because I pasted a command from the release docs when preparing -rc1.)
GIT_VERSION is not available as a config.h variable, because it's rendered
into version.h during builds. Let's rework jinja2 rendering to also
parse version.h. No functional change, the new variable is so far unused.
I guess this will make partial rebuilds a bit slower, but it's useful
to be able to use the full version string.
The test for the variable is added in test-systemctl-enable because there we
can do it almost for free, and the variable is most likely to be used with
'systemctl enable --root' anyway.
The first three fields of a note are binary, so they are subject to
flipping due to endianess. Instead of a stream of bytes, just use
the native 4-bytes type so that it gets encoded automatically.
Implemented in the tools via: https://github.com/systemd/package-notes/pull/31
This new file is supposed to address conflicts with Fedora/Grub's
frankenbootloaderspec implementation, that squatted the /loader/entries/
dir, but place incompatible files in them (that do variable expansion?).
A simple text file /loader/entries.srel shall indicate which spec is
implemented. If it contains the string "type1\n" then the
/loader/entries/ directory implements our standard spec, otherwise
something else.
This allows snippet generators to explicitly order entries: any string
can be set as an entry's "sort key". If set, sd-boot will use it to sort
entries on display.
New logic is hence (ignore the boot counting logic)
sort-key is set → primary sort key: sort-key (lexicographically increasing order)
→ secondary sort key: machine-id (also increasing order)
→ tertiary sort key: version (lexicographically decreasing order!)
sort-key is not set → primary sort key: entry filename (aka id), lexicographically increasing order)
With this scheme we can order OSes by their names from A-Z but then put
within the same OS still the newest version first. This should clean up
the order to match expectations more.
Based on discussions here:
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/22391#issuecomment-1040092633
