From 01c8938e54d73595f672f01b78ff6834e8312160 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lennart Poettering Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 11:39:14 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] README: document that prefix *must* be /usr and nss-systemd is not an option See: #7374 --- README | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/README b/README index 835763d..14e6f3f 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -193,6 +193,16 @@ REQUIREMENTS: under all circumstances. In fact, systemd-hostnamed will warn if nss-myhostname is not installed. + nss-systemd must be enabled on systemd systems, as that's required for + DynamicUser= to work. Note that we ship services out-of-the-box that + 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. + Additional packages are necessary to run some tests: - busybox (used by test/TEST-13-NSPAWN-SMOKE) - nc (used by test/TEST-12-ISSUE-3171) -- 2.7.4