systemd megathread

Read before commenting: https://postmarketos.org/blog/2024/03/05/adding-systemd/

Demo images

Demo images are currently located here: https://mirror.postmarketos.org/temp.fdcc091b56f5/

There are plenty of known issues with these demo builds, and no doubt plenty more unknown. Let's discuss them as well as other architectural/technical stuff here.

How to build your own systemd-based postmarketOS images

See https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Systemd

Next steps for integrating systemd into postmarketOS

• pmbootstrap (systemd branch): support pmb:systemd-never option in postmarketos-ui-* packages for UIs where maintainers don't support systemd (e.g. Sxmo)
• pmbootstrap: make MR, get current patches from systemd branch reviewed and merged into master (pmbootstrap!2273 (merged))
• bpo: do pmbootstrap repo_bootstrap systemd before building any package, if the branch contains the postmarketos-base-systemd package and make it so that all bootstrapped packages get uploaded and added to the new repository at once (usually only one package at a time) (build.postmarketos.org#133 (closed))
• bpo: create a systemd staging repository (with systemd + rest of pmaports combined as intermediate step), by rebasing the systemd branch on top of current master
  • repo bootstrap through bpo for x86_&4
  • repo bootstrap through bpo for aarch64
  • repo bootstrap through bpo for armv7
  • build entire branch on bpo for x86_64
  • build entire branch on bpo for aarch64
  • build entire branch on bpo for armv7
• move instructions for building images to the wiki
• pmaports (systemd branch): add pmb:systemd to all KDE and GNOME based UIs, add pmb:systemd-never to Sxmo's UI packages (see !4894 (closed))
• pmbootstrap: extend to build the systemd dir of pmaports separate from the main postmarketOS binary package repository (pmbootstrap#2328 (closed))
• bpo: extend to build the systemd dir of pmaports separate from the main postmarketOS binary package repository (pmbootstrap#2328 (closed))
• pmaports (master_staging_systemd branch): clean up
• pmaports: make MR, get current patches from systemd branch reviewed and merged into master
• pmaports: remove master_staging_systemd branch, which in turn removes the staging repository
• bpo: build the systemd binary repository
• bpo: build the first edge images with systemd for GNOME and KDE
• wiki: add some documentation to https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Systemd

Afterwards:

• Lots of bug fixes
• the next release (probably v24.12 then) will branch from current master as usually, and will have systemd for KDE and GNOME based UIs

How to contribute

• Make merge requests towards the master_staging_systemd branch of pmbootstrap / pmaports for now
• Join the postmarketos-devel chat, let's discuss there! https://postmarketos.org/chat/