jsynacek/systemd-backports-for-centos-7

Description

Repository with the latest(ish) systemd packaged for RHEL 7 / Centos 7.

This repository is for testing purposes only and is not supported in any way.

Packages

curl-7.47.1-1.1.el7

• taken from rhscl-2.2-httpd24-rhel-7
• slightly modified not to build or require libnghttp2-specific stuff

util-linux-2.29-2.fc26

• taken from fedora 26 (master, commit 3d940d4e8372094b837a69f2ac5ca2e15422ec9b)
• built with the following removed to remove conflicts with sysvinit-tools:
  • {_bindir}/last
  • {_bindir}/mesg
  • {_bindir}/wall
  • {_mandir}/man1/last.1*
  • {_mandir}/man1/mesg.1*
  • {_mandir}/man1/wall.1*

lz4-1.7.4.2-1.fc26

• taken from fedora 26 (master, commit b19fedc68988350e1529155cecac701cd0299a85)
• built without modifications

libgudev-230-2.fc26

• taken from fedora 26 (master, commit ae15b116238578e5b70be483ce99d57357b19b39)
• built without modifications

systemd

• v231, original spec and patches taken from https://github.com/facebookincubator/rpm-backports
• modifications:
  • removed facebook-specific compile options
  • removed python3 requirements
  • added systemd-sysv
  • disabled xkbcommon
  • patched to compile against lz4 correctly

python-systemd-232-2.fc26

• taken from fedora 26 (master, commit 87ccb30ab59ffd4015de6ca4a0eb3390c57f491a)
• modified not to build or require python3-specific stuff
• has to be built after systemd
• provides systemd-python to make updating from systemd-219 easy

Installation Instructions

1. Make sure to edit /etc/selinux/config and put SELinux to permissive before you update, otherwise your system will not boot anymore!
2. # wget https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/jsynacek/systemd-backports-for-centos-7/repo/epel-7/jsynacek-systemd-backports-for-centos-7-epel-7.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/jsynacek-systemd-centos-7.repo
3. # yum update systemd
4. Reboot.

Active Releases

The following unofficial repositories are provided as-is by owner of this project. Contact the owner directly for bugs or issues (IE: not bugzilla).

Release	Architectures	Repo Download
EPEL 7	x86_64 (8824197)*	EPEL 7 (70059 downloads)

* Total number of downloaded packages.