Changes in KaarPux version 2.0.0¶

Introducing systemd¶

systemd is a system and service manager for Linux, compatible with SysV and LSB init scripts. systemd provides aggressive parallelization capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services, offers on-demand starting of daemons, keeps track of processes using Linux control groups, supports snapshotting and restoring of the system state, maintains mount and automount points and implements an elaborate transactional dependency-based service control logic.

See systemd for more information and links.

Replacing sysvinit with systemd has some advantages:

• we get rid of a lot of unmaintained init.d scripts
• we get much faster booting
• we have a cleaner definition on what to do on boot

However, the disadvantages:

• we need to pull a lot of (“unwanted”) packages into the core system
• we loose the / vs. /usr separation, so we cannot boot without /usr mounted
• we cannot boot without e.g. dbus

To the author of KaarPux the advantages seems to outweight the disadvantages! So, KaarPux is switching to systemd.

Packages have been added, removed, and modified (see below) and:

• remove all /etc/rc.d scripts
• remove all /etc/sysconfig files
• add configuration files for systemd
• move a lot of prerequisite packages from linux_base to bootstrap

Added packages¶

The following package has been added:

• systemd (Commit 62f65b25, f089d6fb)

Removed packages¶

The following packages have been removed:

• sysvinit (Commit 62f65b25, f089d6fb)
• sysklogd; now handled by the journal in systemd (Commit 62f65b25, f089d6fb)
• udev; now part of systemd (Commit 62f65b25, f089d6fb)
• ConsoleKit (Commit f8b9c4cb)

Modified packages¶

The following packages have been modified to support systemd:

• gnome-settings-daemon (Commit de832eea)
• cups; updated to version 1.5.4 (Commit bb2604db, f92de388, a32e3e2c, efe657a5)
• pulseaudio; updated to v 2.1 (Commit 48926ba8)
• NetworkManager (Commit 221e5198, b36e1c21)
• iptables (Commit 8f0c6e2f, 7bf61175)
• openssh (Commit 4075c121)
• dhcpcd (Commit 2547aaa8)
• usbutils; updated to version 006 (Commit 62f65b25, f089d6fb)
• gdm (Commit bf9ff663)