Re: Running NM without systemd

[Robby Workman <robby rlworkman net>]

On Tue, 2 May 2017 16:32:55 +0100 (BST)
Colin Helliwell <colin helliwell ln-systems com> wrote:

> > 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


We've got NM in Slackware and no systemd, so yeah, it should work :)

This might be useful:
http://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware-current/source/n/NetworkManager/

-RW