PR#7: Do not require systemd at runtime - rpms/httpd

rpms / httpd

#7 Do not require systemd at runtime

Closed 4 years ago by jorton. Opened 4 years ago by tdawson.

rpms/ tdawson/httpd no-systemd into master

Do not require systemd at runtime

Troy Dawson • 4 years ago

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httpd.spec

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		`@@ -100,9 +100,6 @@`
		`Requires: httpd-filesystem = %{version}-%{release}`
		`Requires: mod_http2`
		`Requires(pre): httpd-filesystem`
		`- Requires(preun): systemd-units`
		`- Requires(postun): systemd-units`
		`- Requires(post): systemd-units`
		`Conflicts: apr < 1.5.0-1`
		`Provides: mod_proxy_uwsgi = %{version}-%{release}`
		`Obsoletes: mod_proxy_uwsgi < 2.0.17.1-2`

tdawson commented 4 years ago

Sometimes systemd is not wanted to start the httpd deamon. An example of this is in containers.
Forcing the package to install systemd when it isn't needed, or wanted, causes bloat in the Fedora containers.
https://pagure.io/minimization/issue/2

jorton commented 4 years ago

Has ownership of /usr/lib/systemd/... moved from systemd? Otherwise surely this dep is correct for packages which ship .service files.

jorton commented 4 years ago

Also /usr/sbin/apachectl requires/usr/bin/systemctl so this dep is required for that reason too. It may be possible to produce a systemd-independent httpd but simply dropping the dep is not correct.

tdawson commented 4 years ago

Has ownership of /usr/lib/systemd/... moved from systemd? Otherwise surely this dep is correct for packages which ship .service files.

I has been determined that it's optional to require systemd with .service files. This is mainly due to containers.
https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/pull-request/890

tdawson commented 4 years ago

Also /usr/sbin/apachectl requires/usr/bin/systemctl so this dep is required for that reason too. It may be possible to produce a systemd-independent httpd but simply dropping the dep is not correct.

You are correct. Because apachectl requires systemctl, we cannot simply drop systemd.

But the goal is the still there, to trim down the httpd container.

jorton commented 4 years ago

For avoidance of doubt we are not planning to drop systemd support from httpd, so I am closing this since there is no concrete proposal on how to "improve" things here.