Bug 618386

Summary:	sys-apps/systemd-9999/>233 - changes to util-linux dependency
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Elias Probst <mail>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo systemd Team <systemd>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/f089206caa51ce7fe7af783bd6c335ac92c2fcc0#diff-c47c7c7383225ab55ff591cb59c41e6b
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Description Elias Probst 2017-05-13 19:52:59 UTC

systemd-9999 and future releases (>233) might require a few changes (see also URL):

commit f089206caa51ce7fe7af783bd6c335ac92c2fcc0
Author: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
Date:   Fri May 12 04:49:48 2017 -0400

    README: update util-linux required compilation options (#5949)
    
    Fixes #5563.

diff --git a/README b/README
index d7477510a..c627922e1 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -127,7 +127,8 @@ REQUIREMENTS:
         glibc >= 2.16
         libcap
         libmount >= 2.27.1 (from util-linux)
-                (util-linux *must* be built with --enable-libmount-force-mountinfo)
+                (util-linux < 2.29 *must* be built with --enable-libmount-force-mountinfo,
+                 and later versions without --enable-libmount-support-mtab.)
         libseccomp >= 2.3.1 (optional)
         libblkid >= 2.24 (from util-linux) (optional)
         libkmod >= 15 (optional)

Comment 1 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev

2017-05-13 20:10:08 UTC

So long as /etc/mtab is a symlink to /proc/self/mounts, this option does not matter.