2 title: Porting systemd To New Distributions
5 SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-or-later
8 # Porting systemd To New Distributions
12 You need to make the follow changes to adapt systemd to your distribution:
14 1. Find the right configure parameters for:
28 Play around (as an ordinary user) with
29 `/usr/lib/systemd/systemd --test --system` for a test run of systemd without booting.
30 This will read the unit files and print the initial transaction it would execute during boot-up.
31 This will also inform you about ordering loops and suchlike.
33 ## Compilation options
35 The default configuration does not enable any optimization or hardening options.
36 This is suitable for development and testing, but not for end-user
39 For deployment, optimization (`-O2` or `-O3` compiler options), link time
40 optimization (`-Db_lto=true` meson option), and hardening (e.g.
41 `-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2`, `-fstack-protector-strong`, `-fstack-clash-protection`,
42 `-fcf-protection`, `-pie` compiler options, and `-z relro`, `-z now`,
43 `--as-needed` linker options) are recommended.
44 The most appropriate set of options depends on the architecture and distribution specifics so no default is
49 By default, systemd-timesyncd uses the Google Public NTP servers
50 `time[1-4].google.com`, if no other NTP configuration is available.
51 They serve time that uses a
52 [leap second smear](https://developers.google.com/time/smear)
53 and can be up to .5s off from servers that use stepped leap seconds.
55 If you prefer to use leap second steps, please register your own
56 vendor pool at ntp.org and make it the built-in default by
57 passing `-Dntp-servers=` to meson.
58 Registering vendor pools is
59 [free](http://www.pool.ntp.org/en/vendors.html).
61 Use `-Dntp-servers=` to direct systemd-timesyncd to different fallback
66 By default, systemd-resolved uses Cloudflare and Google Public DNS servers
67 `1.1.1.1`, `8.8.8.8`, `1.0.0.1`, `8.8.4.4`, `2606:4700:4700::1111`, `2001:4860:4860::8888`, `2606:4700:4700::1001`, `2001:4860:4860::8844`
68 as fallback, if no other DNS configuration is available.
70 Use `-Ddns-servers=` to direct systemd-resolved to different fallback
75 The default PAM config shipped by systemd is really bare bones.
76 It does not include many modules your distro might want to enable
77 to provide a more seamless experience.
78 For example, limits set in `/etc/security/limits.conf` will not be read unless you load `pam_limits`.
79 Make sure you add modules your distro expects from user services.
81 Pass `-Dpamconfdir=no` to meson to avoid installing this file and
82 instead install your own.
84 ## Contributing Upstream
86 We generally no longer accept distribution-specific patches to
88 If you have to make changes to systemd's source code to make it work on your distribution, unless your code is generic enough to be generally useful, we are unlikely to merge it.
89 Please always consider adopting the upstream defaults.
90 If that is not possible, please maintain the relevant patches downstream.
92 Thank you for understanding.