When using top level drop-ins it isn't immediately obvious that one can
make use of symlinking to disable a top-level drop in for a specific
unit.
Signed-off-by: Peter Morrow <pemorrow@linux.microsoft.com>
We were effectively doing all post-upgrade scripts twice in Fedora. We got this
wrong, so it's likely other people will get it wrong too. So let's explain
what is actually needed to make this work, but also when it's not useful.
The code works differently than the docs, and the code is right here.
Fix the doc hence.
See VALID_CHARS in unit-name.c for details about allowed chars in unit
names, but keep in mind that "-" and "\" are special, since generated by
the escaping logic: they are OK to show up in unit names, but need to be
escaped when converting foreign strings to unit names to make sure
things remain reversible.
Fixes: #19623
This is like a really strong version of Wants=, that keeps starting the
specified unit if it is ever found inactive.
This is an alternative to Restart= inside a unit, acknowledging the fact
that whether to keep restarting the unit is sometimes not a property of
the unit itself but the state of the system.
This implements a part of what #4263 requests. i.e. there's no
distinction between "always" and "opportunistic". We just dumbly
implement "always" and become active whenever we see no job queued for
an inactive unit that is supposed to be upheld.
This is similar to OnFailure= but is activated whenever a unit returns
into inactive state successfully.
I was always afraid of adding this, since it effectively allows building
loops and makes our engine Turing complete, but it pretty much already
was it was just hidden.
Given that we have per-unit ratelimits as well as an event loop global
ratelimit I feel safe to add this finally, given it actually is useful.
Fixes: #13386
This takes inspiration from PropagatesReloadTo=, but propagates
stop jobs instead of restart jobs.
This is defined based on exactly two atoms: UNIT_ATOM_PROPAGATE_STOP +
UNIT_ATOM_RETROACTIVE_STOP_ON_STOP. The former ensures that when the
unit the dependency is originating from is stopped based on user
request, we'll propagate the stop job to the target unit, too. In
addition, when the originating unit suddenly stops from external causes
the stopping is propagated too. Note that this does *not* include the
UNIT_ATOM_CANNOT_BE_ACTIVE_WITHOUT atom (which is used by BoundBy=),
i.e. this dependency is purely about propagating "edges" and not
"levels", i.e. it's about propagating specific events, instead of
continious states.
This is supposed to be useful for dependencies between .mount units and
their backing .device units. So far we either placed a BindsTo= or
Requires= dependency between them. The former gave a very clear binding
of the to units together, however was problematic if users establish
mounnts manually with different block device sources than our
configuration defines, as we there might come to the conclusion that the
backing device was absent and thus we need to umount again what the user
mounted. By combining Requires= with the new StopPropagatedFrom= (i.e.
the inverse PropagateStopTo=) we can get behaviour that matches BindsTo=
in every single atom but one: UNIT_ATOM_CANNOT_BE_ACTIVE_WITHOUT is
absent, and hence the level-triggered logic doesn't apply.
Replaces: #11340
This allows to limit units to machines that run on a certain firmware
type. For device tree defined machines checking against the machine's
compatible is also possible.
This specifes two new optional fields for /etc/os-release:
IMAGE_VERSION= and IMAGE_ID= that are supposed to identify the image of
the current booted system by name and version.
This is inspired by the versioning stuff in
https://github.com/systemd/mkosi/pull/683.
In environments where pre-built images are installed and updated as a
whole the existing os-release version/distro identifier are not
sufficient to describe the system's version, as they describe only the
distro an image is built from, but not the image itself, even if that
image is deployed many times on many systems, and even if that image
contains more resources than just the RPMs/DEBs.
In particular, "mkosi" is a tool for building disk images based on
distro RPMs with additional resources dropped in. The combination of all
of these together with their versions should also carry an identifier
and version, and that's what IMAGE_VERSION= and IMAGE_ID= is supposed to
be.
systemd.unit(5) is a wall of text. And this particular feature can be very useful
in the context of resource control. Let's avertise this cool feature a bit more.
Fixes#17900.
Before, we only allowed conditionalizing on controllers, not the hierarchy.
This commit extends this to allow a simple check for v1 (i.e. classic or hybrid),
and v2 (full unified).
An alternative approach would be to add a separate Condition for this, but I'm
not too keen on that, considering that v1 is already being deprecrecated
(c.f. 82f3063218).
e3820eeaf1 did that replacement XDG_CONFIG_HOME, in one
of two places. Let's use ~/.config everywhere.
Quoting https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/18704#discussion_r579465254:
> I'd really drop XDG_CONFIG_HOME from the docs. It's confusing enough as it
> is. Where we don't need the indirections we should not confuse people with
> it, in particular as people might then think it's actually a good idea to use
> that env var and redirect things. I'd just show the literal path everywhere,
> even if we internally use the env var.
Commit 83f72cd65f ("man,docs: document the new unit file directory for
attached images") updated the docs and man page with the new unit file
directory for attached images but included a system.attached ->
systemd.attached typo in the man page portion of the change. Fix the
typo to document the correct path.
Taking a stab at implementing #14479.
Add {Condition,Assert}CPUFeature to `systemd-analyze` & friends. Implement it
by executing the CPUID instruction. Add tables for common x86/i386
features.
Tested via unit tests + checked that commands such as:
```bash
systemd-analyze condition 'AssertCPUFeature = rdrand'
```
Succeed as expected and that commands such as
```bash
systemd-analyze condition 'AssertCPUFeature = foobar'
```
Fail as expected. Finally, I have amended the `systemd.unit` manual page
with the new condition and the list of all currently supported flags.
A minor tweak, that hopefully makes things a bit clearer, given that we
previously used "requirement dependency" when referring to Wants=, which
might be confusing given that we have Requires=
Currently systemd-detect-virt fails to detect running under PowerVM.
Add code to detect PowerVM based on code in util-linux.
Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@suse.de>
The concept is flawed, and mostly useless. Let's finally remove it.
It has been deprecated since 90a2ec10f2 (6
years ago) and we started to warn since
55dadc5c57 (1.5 years ago).
Let's get rid of it altogether.
For users, the square brackets already serve as markup and clearly delineate
the section name from surrounding text. Putting additional markup around that
only adds clutter. Also, we were very inconsistent in using the quotes. Let's
just drop them altogether.
Six years ago we declared it obsolete and removed it from the docs
(c073a0c4a5) and added a note about it in
NEWS. Two years ago we add warning messages about it, indicating the
feature will be removed (41b283d0f1) and
mentioned it in NEWS again.
Let's now kill it for good.
Much like systemd.condition-needs-update= this new switch allows
overriding of a unit file condition, but this time its
ConditionFirstBoot=.
Usecase is also primarily debugging, but could be useful for other
schemes too.
