Names= is a source of errors, simply because alias names specified like
this only become relevant after a unit has been loaded but cannot be
used to load a unit.
Let's get rid of the confusion and drop this field. To establish alias
names peope should use symlinks, which have the the benefit of being
useful as key to load a unit, even though they are not taken into
account if unit names are listed but they haven't been explicitly
referenced before.
UnitPath= is also writable via native units and may be used by generators
to clarify from which file a unit is generated. This patch also hooks up
the cryptsetup and fstab generators to set UnitPath= accordingly.
This should help making the boot process a bit easier to explore and
understand for the administrator. The simple idea is that "systemctl
status" now shows a link to documentation alongside the other status and
decriptionary information of a service.
This patch adds the necessary fields to all our shipped units if we have
proper documentation for them.
RequiresMountsFor= is a shortcut for adding requires and after
dependencies to all mount units neeed for the specified paths.
This solves a couple of issues regarding dep loop cycles for encrypted
swap.
We finally got the OK from all contributors with non-trivial commits to
relicense systemd from GPL2+ to LGPL2.1+.
Some udev bits continue to be GPL2+ for now, but we are looking into
relicensing them too, to allow free copy/paste of all code within
systemd.
The bits that used to be MIT continue to be MIT.
The big benefit of the relicensing is that closed source code may now
link against libsystemd-login.so and friends.
ConditionPathExists and ConditionFileIsExecutable follow symlinks.
ConditionPathIsDirectory does not follow symlinks.
(XXX: is this actually the desired behavior?)
It was noted on IRC that the current layout is not necessarily the
easiest to parse by humans. I personnally struggled understanding it the
first time I read it.
Hopefully, this change makes it easier to understand.
Note: I only reformatted the information that was already present in the
documentation, I didn't add anything.
The virtualization condition and others use lowercase identifiers, so
for the sake of keeping things least surprising, use lowercase
identifiers here too.
The property StopRetroactively= needs to be per-dependency, not
per-unit, in order to properly express dependencies between .mount units
and its .device and fsck .service units. If the .device unit is
unplugged the mount should go away, but if the fsck process terminates
the .mount should stay.
Some unit shall never be start on user request (e.g. shutdown.target)
others never be stopped on user request (e.g. auditd.servce), hence
offer options for both.
