Liberated systemd -- testing and automation suite

This is where I manage all testing and automation related tasks for Liberated systemd (https://github.com/Jeffrey-Sardina/systemd).

The testing pipeline

Currently, this is nothing fancy. Once changes are made to the systemd fork, all tests in test.sh are run. These are the same CI tests base systemd requires for all pull requests (see: https://systemd.io/HACKING/). In short, this consists of creating a VM running systemd from the (new) source code, and verifying that it runs.

New pushes of Liberated systemd code are only made once tests pass.

How to use this repo

1. Use the commands in setup.sh to configure the environment. Note that the first line (commended out) will vary on your OS -- make sure you have the correct keyring app installed for your distro. The remaining commands will clone mkosi and Liberated systemd.
2. Use test.sh to run the tests. Monitor the terminal and check to see if the VM launches correctly.

TODO list

There are several tasks I am currently working on to streamline the process of updating and testing Liberated systemd. If you want to help the project, this would be a great place to step in!

Here's what I still need to do:

1. automate everything from test -> commit -> push. Right now, testing is 99% automatic -- but I have to check the VM at the end and verify it is up. I'd like to get this to instead return 1 (passed) or 0 (failed) with an error message. Once that's done, it's a simple bash script to automate commits and pushes.
2. automate merging new code from base systemd. The idea here is to detect whenever a commit is made to systemd/main, pull the data, and auto-merge it. After that, this could be connected to the test -> commit -> push pipeline to functionally automate updating Liberated systemd.

A note on the second part -- age verification in systemd was / is very much a tack-on, not a core part of the code. I expect that almost all updates to systemd won't conflict with the changes made to remove age verification, which means that in most cases this should be able to be done automatically. In reality, it will be necessary to implement human oversight before a push -- just in case other forms of surveillance are implemented, or if the manner in which age verification support is written in base systemd changes.

Contributing and Licensing

This repo is made available under the same license as base systemd and Liberated systemd: the GNU General Public License v2. All code contributions must be made available under the same license.

Please note that PRs including AI-generated code, be it correct or incorrect, will be rejected until re-written by a human.

Liberated systemd source code

You can find Liberated systemd here:

• github - https://github.com/Jeffrey-Sardina/systemd
• codeberg (mirror) - https://codeberg.org/Jeffrey-Sardina/systemd
• gitea (mirror) - https://gitea.com/Jeffrey-Sardina/systemd