Re: Running NM without systemd

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Tue, 2017-05-02 at 16:23 +0100, Colin Helliwell 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 then I
> don't yet get as for as the configure step, but on the recipe version
> *with* systemd, the configure line was
>
> ../git/configure  --build=x86_64-linux              --host=arm-poky-
> linux-gnueabi                   --target=arm-poky-linux-
> gnueabi                 --prefix=/usr                   
> --exec_prefix=/usr              --bindir=/usr/bin               
> --sbindir=/usr/sbin             
> --libexecdir=/usr/libexec               
> --datadir=/usr/share            --sysconfdir=/etc               
> --sharedstatedir=/com                   
> --localstatedir=/var            --libdir=/usr/lib               
> --includedir=/usr/include               
> --oldincludedir=/usr/include            
> --infodir=/usr/share/info               
> --mandir=/usr/share/man                 --disable-silent-
> rules                  --disable-dependency-
> tracking                   --with-libtool-sysroot=/home/colin/100051-
> trunk/fsl-community-bsp/build/tmp/sysroots/wg2xx-tx6s --enable-
> introspection       --disable-ifcfg-rh     --disable-ifnet     
> --disable-ifcfg-suse     --disable-more-warnings     --with-
> iptables=/usr/sbin/iptables     --with-nmtui=no     --enable-
> tests=no     --enable-polkit=disabled  --disable-polkit-agent     
> --disable-gtk-doc  --disable-gtk-doc-html     --disable-
> introspection     --enable-vala=no    --disable-static --enable-nls
> --disable-bluez5-dun --with-dhclient=/sbin/dhclient --enable-ifupdown 
> --with-modem-manager-1=yes --with-netconfig=no --with-crypto=nss --
> enable-ppp --disable-qt --with-resolvconf=no      --with-
> systemdsystemunitdir=/lib/systemd/system --with-session-
> tracking=systemd  --enable-wifi=no

--with-systemdsystemunitdir=no
--with-session-tracking=none
--with-suspend-resume=consolekit

What's the ConsoleKit dep issue?  In current NM it's just a D-Bus
thing, so there shouldn't be any hard dependency on headers or
libraries.  You'll probably get a log message error, but that should be
it I think.

Dan