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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2011-02-23 01:12:07 +0100
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2011-02-23 01:12:07 +0100
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@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ AUTHOR:
Lennart Poettering with major support from Kay Sievers
REQUIREMENTS:
- Linux kernel >= 2.6.30 (with autofs4, devtmpfs, cgroups, ipv6)
+ Linux kernel >= 2.6.30 (with devtmpfs, cgroups; optional but strongly recommended: autofs4, ipv6)
libudev >= 163
dbus >= 1.4.0
libcap
@@ -47,10 +47,27 @@ REQUIREMENTS:
automake
autoconf
libtool
+ make, gcc, and similar tools
During runtime you need the following dependencies:
util-linux > v2.18 (requires fsck -l, agetty -s)
- sulogin (from sysvinit-tools)
+ sulogin (from sysvinit-tools, optional but recommended)
plymouth (optional)
dracut (optional)
+
+WARNINGS:
+ systemd will warn you during boot if /etc/mtab is not a
+ symlink to /proc/mounts. Please ensure that /etc/mtab is a
+ proper symlink.
+
+ systemd will warn you during boot if /usr is on a different
+ file system than /. While in systemd itself very little will
+ break if /usr is on a seperate partition many of its
+ dependencies very likely will break sooner or later in one
+ form or another. For example udev rules tend to refer to
+ binaries in /usr, binaries that link to libraries in /usr or
+ binaries that refer to data files in /usr. Since these
+ breakages are not always directly visible systemd will warn
+ about this, since this kind of file system setup is not really
+ supported anymore by the basic set of Linux OS components.