F24 System Wide Change: Systemd package split

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 05:16:33PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 08:38:40AM -0500, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
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> > On 11/19/2015 09:04 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> > > On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 10:28:25PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones
> > > wrote:
> > >> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 05:32:02PM +0100, Jan Kurik wrote:
> > >>> * systemd-udev.rpm will consist of systemd-udevd, udevadm, udev
> > >>> rules, and the hardware database.
> > >> 
> > >> So close!  libguestfs needs udevd and /sbin/reboot.
> > >> Unfortunately the latter is still part of the main systemd
> > >> package.
> > > reboot is systemctl is a thin client for systemd, so no hope here
> > > :)
> > 
> > Why does libguestfs need /sbin/reboot? That seems a little suspect to me.
> 
> It runs it:
> 
>   https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/blob/master/appliance/init#L196
> 
> But actually it only runs `reboot -f', because we have no systemd in
> the appliance -- as there is only one process + udevd in the
> appliance, using systemd would be overkill.  So that could be replaced
> with a simple system call to `reboot (RB_AUTOBOOT)'.
Filesystems should be synced first (that's what systemctl reboot -f / reboot -f does).
I don't know if libguestfs does that separately.

Zbyszek