We're documenting the behavior of blob directories here. These docs
refer to things that aren't yet implemented at the time of the commit, but will be later in the same PR.
Let's make sure that versions generated by meson-vcs-tag.sh always
sort higher than official and stable releases. We achieve this by
immediately updating the meson version in meson.build after a new
release. To make sure this version always sorts lower than future
rcs, we suffix it with "~devel" which will sort lower than "~rcX".
The new release workflow is to update the version in meson.build
for each rc and the official release and to also update the version
number after a new release to the next development version.
The full version is exposed as PROJECT_VERSION_FULL and used where
it makes sense over PROJECT_VERSION.
We also switch to reading the version from a meson.version file in
the repo instead of hardcoding it in meson.build. This makes it
easier to access both inside and outside of the project.
The meson-vcs-tag.sh script is rewritten to query the version from
meson.version instead of passing it in via the command line. This
makes it easier to use outside of systemd since users don't have to
query the version themselves first.
This adds fields to the user record logic to allow a "fallback" home
directory and shell to be set as part of the "status" section of the
user record, i.e. supplied by the manager of the user record.
The idea is that if the fallback homedir/shell is set it will take
precedence over the real one in most ways.
Usecase: let's try to make ssh logins into homed directories work.
systemd-homed would set a fallback shell/homedir for inactive home dirs.
Thus, when ssh logins take place via key auth, we can allow them, and
these fallback session params would be used because the real home cannot
be activated just yet becasue we cannot acquire any password for it from
the user.
This field is like preferredLanguage, but takes a priority list of
languages instead. If an app isn't translated into a user's primary
language, it can fall back to one of the other languages in the list
thus making the app more accessible to the user.
For instance: in my experience, many Ukrainians are fluent in Russian,
often significantly better than English (especially if they are of a
generation that grew up during the USSR). Such a person might set this
new variable to ["uk_UA.UTF-8", "ru_UA.UTF-8"] so that software that
lacks Ukrainian translations will first try Russian translations before
defaulting to English.
Fixes#31290
tilde sorts lower in the version comparison spec:
https://uapi-group.org/specifications/specs/version_format_specification/
➜ systemd git:(strip) systemd-analyze compare-versions 249\~rc1 249
249\~rc1 < 249
➜ systemd git:(strip) systemd-analyze compare-versions 249-rc1 249
249-rc1 > 249
Also update tools/meson-vcs-tag.sh to use carets instead of hyphens
for the git part of the version as carets are allowed to be part of
a version by pacman while hyphens are not and both sort higher than
a version without the git part.
When running an image that cannot be mounted (e.g.: key missing intentionally
for development purposes), there's a retry loop that takes some time
and slows development down. Add an env var to disable it.
