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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2018-07-16 12:18:36 +0200
committerFilipe Brandenburger <filbranden@google.com>2018-07-17 06:37:06 -0700
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README: clarify that not only systemd should use prefix=/usr, but its deps too
See: #9547
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@@ -205,10 +205,12 @@ REQUIREMENTS:
make use of DynamicUser= now, hence enabling nss-systemd is not
optional.
- Note that the build prefix for systemd must be /usr. -Dsplit-usr=false
- (which is the default and does not need to be specified) is the
- recommended setting, and -Dsplit-usr=true should be used on systems
- which have /usr on a separate partition.
+ Note that the build prefix for systemd must be /usr. (Moreover,
+ packages systemd relies on — such as D-Bus — really should use the same
+ prefix, otherwise you are on your own.) -Dsplit-usr=false (which is the
+ default and does not need to be specified) is the recommended setting,
+ and -Dsplit-usr=true should be used on systems which have /usr on a
+ separate partition.
Additional packages are necessary to run some tests:
- busybox (used by test/TEST-13-NSPAWN-SMOKE)