[yocto] Changing over to systemd (no dhcp)

[Rick Altherr]

I was wondering about this recently.  Why are these snippets put in
local.conf.sample.extended instead of separate, well-named .inc files that
can be shared by multiple distros?  The current model seems to encourage
putting lots of configuration in local.conf that probably should be in the
distro or machine conf.

Rick

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 1:35 PM, Andre McCurdy <armccurdy at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 7:10 AM,  <colin.helliwell at ln-systems.com> wrote:
> > We have a configuration for our embedded system which is working via
> SysV,
> > but we’re investigating moving over to systemd.
> >
> > Not sure if this is ‘wise’ – if anyone has technological arguments
> > for/against then I’d be interested – but I wanted to investigate it
> anyway.
> >
> > I’ve modified local.conf (right or wrong) with
> >
> >   DISTRO_FEATURES_append = " systemd"
> >   VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_init_manager = "systemd"
> >   DISTRO_FEATURES_BACKFILL_CONSIDERED = "sysvinit"
> >   VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_initscripts = ""
> >   KERNEL_ENABLE_CGROUPS = "1"
> >
> > I also found a readme
> > (https://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/tree/README#n37) about the
> > kernel requirements for systemd, and it does at least now boot.
> >
> > However although eth0 is coming up (‘ifconfig eth0’), there doesn’t seem
> to
> > be any dhcp happening – no IP etc.
> >
> > Previously (under SysV) I had the busybox dhcp client; now it seems that
> is
> > missing. There’s a symlink /etc/systemd/system/busybox-udhcpc.service to
> > /dev/null
> >
> > I’m using
> >
> >   Poky Jethro
> >   Kernel 4.4.0
> >   Busybox 1.23.2 (with ‘CONFIG_FEATURE_SYSTEMD=y’)
> >
> > I wondered if this is just a simple switch I’m missing somewhere, or is
> > there a whole load more modifications I need to dig into and hand-craft?
> > (Was hoping for something ‘out of the box’….)
>
> Try:
>
>   VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_initscripts = "systemd-compat-units"
>
> Enabling systemd is somewhat documented by the example in
> {meta-poky,openembedded-core/meta}/conf/local.conf.sample.extended,
> which is:
>
> #
> # Use systemd for system initialization
> #
> # DISTRO_FEATURES_append = " systemd"
> # DISTRO_FEATURES_BACKFILL_CONSIDERED += "sysvinit"
> # VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_init_manager = "systemd"
> # VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_initscripts = "systemd-compat-units"
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