Re: Running NM without systemd

[Colin Helliwell <colin helliwell ln-systems com>]

> On 02 May 2017 at 16:23 Colin Helliwell <colin helliwell ln-systems com> wrote:
>
> > On 02 May 2017 at 16:07 Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 2017-05-02 at 15:54 +0100, colin helliwell ln-systems com
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I'm hoping to use NetworkManager on a system which doesn't have
> > > systemd . So
> > > far I'm hitting a few dependency problems but, before I start trying
> > > to wade
> > > through them I wanted to check that what I'm trying to achieve *is*
> > > possible
> > >
> > > *   or is systemd essential for NM?
> >
> > systemd should not be essential for NM. The various points of systemd
> > integration (suspend/resume, hostname, session-tracking, journal, etc)
> > should be either build-time or runtime selectable.
> >
> > What ./configure or ./autogen arguments are you using? What errors are
> > you getting?
> >
> > Dan
>
> Thanks for confirming that, Dan. Gives me hope (if not enthusiasm :S) for pushing on with the goal.
> As I say, I've only made a very brief stab at it so far, building under Yocto. But the first one I've hit 
> is consolekit being missing [from the overall Yocto image recipes].
> Because this causes an an initial dependency parsing error .....

Let me first work on paring down the Yocto recipe, then I'll have a better feel for what is *actually* missing