systemd Lands Experimental Support For musl libc : linux@programming.dev

systemd Lands Experimental Support For musl libc (www.phoronix.com)

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Systemd today finally merged support for building against and using the musl libc library. This is a win for Linux distributions like postmarketOS, Alpine Linux, and others that use musl by default as their standard C library or offer it as an option.

Since September has been a pull request for experimental support for building systemd with musl libc. This requires a new version of musl with a recent patch, which has been backported to some distributions like Alpine Linux and postmarketOS, in order to use musl as an alternative to glibc.

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[–] hosaka@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I'll finally be able to switch from docker compose to podman with quadlets on my server running alpine

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[–] refalo@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

you're using alpine+docker with systemd?

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[–] hosaka@programming.dev 1 point 11 months ago

Currently just alpine with docker compose, but I initially wanted to use podman, this was before quadlets were a thing and I found it very cumbersome to configure the networking between containers, also recall having to use kustomize as an extra step, so I gave up and went with compose.

Now there are quadlets with podman, which seem to do everything I need but require systemd. I'd be happy to switch from openrc to systemd just for the sake of using podman.

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