Debian Bug report logs - #890265
systemd: journalctl compiled without pattern matching support

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Calum Mackay <calum.mackay@cdmnet.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: systemd: journalctl compiled without pattern matching support

Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 17:02:33 +0000

Package: systemd
Version: 237-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

The -g/--grep option was recently added to the man page, but:

	$ journalctl --grep=blah
	Compiled without pattern matching support

this could be a man page bug, of course, although it's a useful feature.

thanks very much.

best regards,
calum.

-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages systemd depends on:
ii  adduser          3.116
ii  libacl1          2.2.52-3+b1
ii  libapparmor1     2.11.1-4
ii  libaudit1        1:2.8.1-2
ii  libblkid1        2.30.2-0.1
ii  libc6            2.25-4
ii  libcap2          1:2.25-1.2
ii  libcryptsetup12  2:2.0.1-1
ii  libgcrypt20      1.8.1-4
ii  libgpg-error0    1.27-5
ii  libidn11         1.33-2
ii  libip4tc0        1.6.1-2+b1
ii  libkmod2         24-1
ii  liblz4-1         0.0~r131-2+b1
ii  liblzma5         5.2.2-1.3
ii  libmount1        2.30.2-0.1
ii  libpam0g         1.1.8-3.6
ii  libseccomp2      2.3.1-2.1
ii  libselinux1      2.7-2
ii  libsystemd0      237-2
ii  mount            2.30.2-0.1
ii  procps           2:3.3.12-3
ii  util-linux       2.30.2-0.1

Versions of packages systemd recommends:
ii  dbus            1.12.2-1
ii  libpam-systemd  237-2

Versions of packages systemd suggests:
ii  policykit-1        0.105-18
pn  systemd-container  <none>

Versions of packages systemd is related to:
pn  dracut           <none>
ii  initramfs-tools  0.130
ii  udev             235-3

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/systemd/journald.conf changed:
[Journal]
SystemMaxUse=8G
SystemMaxFiles=1000


-- no debconf information

Message #10 received at 890265@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>

To: Calum Mackay <calum.mackay@cdmnet.org>, 890265@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#890265: systemd: journalctl compiled without pattern matching support

Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 11:25:56 +0100

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Am 12.02.2018 um 18:02 schrieb Calum Mackay:
> Package: systemd
> Version: 237-2
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> The -g/--grep option was recently added to the man page, but:
> 
> 	$ journalctl --grep=blah
> 	Compiled without pattern matching support
> 
> this could be a man page bug, of course, although it's a useful feature.

As the message says, systemd has been compiled without pattern matching
support. This is deliberate, as this would required linking against
pcre2, which would basically make this library mandatory on every
system. That's why I hesitated to enable that feature.





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Message #27 received at 890265@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Tiziano Zito <opossumnano@gmail.com>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <890265@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: Re: systemd: journalctl compiled without pattern matching support

Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2018 09:53:02 +0200

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Package: systemd
Version: 238-5
Followup-For: Bug #890265

Why is linking to pcre2 such a problem? It is a 500k library, yes, but the grepping feature of journactl is very useful. Right now you have to pipe journalctl output to grep, but this is not equivalent, because the --grep option looks for matching patterns in the MESSAGE field while grepping manually greps the whole log…

Installing pcre2 by default would maybe motivate the grep maintainers to migrate away from the deprecated libpcre3 and move to libpcre2-posix0 instead...

Thank you very very much for maintaining systemd, by the way! :)

Ciao,
Tiziano

-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.16.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages systemd depends on:
ii  adduser          3.117
ii  libacl1          2.2.52-3+b1
ii  libapparmor1     2.12-4
ii  libaudit1        1:2.8.3-1
ii  libblkid1        2.32-0.1
ii  libc6            2.27-3
ii  libcap2          1:2.25-1.2
ii  libcryptsetup12  2:2.0.2-1
ii  libgcrypt20      1.8.2-2
ii  libgpg-error0    1.31-1
ii  libidn11         1.33-2.2
ii  libip4tc0        1.6.2-1
ii  libkmod2         25-1
ii  liblz4-1         1.8.2-1
ii  liblzma5         5.2.2-1.3
ii  libmount1        2.32-0.1
ii  libpam0g         1.1.8-3.7
ii  libseccomp2      2.3.3-2
ii  libselinux1      2.8-1
ii  libsystemd0      238-5
ii  mount            2.32-0.1
ii  procps           2:3.3.15-2
ii  util-linux       2.32-0.1

Versions of packages systemd recommends:
ii  dbus            1.12.8-2
ii  libpam-systemd  238-5

Versions of packages systemd suggests:
ii  policykit-1        0.105-20
ii  systemd-container  238-5

Versions of packages systemd is related to:
pn  dracut           <none>
ii  initramfs-tools  0.130
ii  udev             238-5

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/systemd/journald.conf changed [not included]
/etc/systemd/logind.conf changed [not included]

-- no debconf information

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Message #32 received at 890265@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>

To: Tiziano Zito <opossumnano@gmail.com>, 890265@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#890265: systemd: journalctl compiled without pattern matching support

Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 19:30:04 +0100

On Tue, 05 Jun 2018 at 09:53:02 +0200, Tiziano Zito wrote:
> Installing pcre2 by default would maybe motivate the grep maintainers
> to migrate away from the deprecated libpcre3 and move to libpcre2-posix0
> instead...

Opening a bug on the grep package seems a more reliable way to
communicate with the grep maintainers than making changes to a different
package. I've opened <https://bugs.debian.org/907651> and
<https://bugs.debian.org/907652>.

    smcv

Message #37 received at 890265@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>

To: 890265@bugs.debian.org, Calum Mackay <calum.mackay@cdmnet.org>, Laurent Bigonville <bigon@debian.org>

Subject: Re: Bug#890265: systemd: journalctl compiled without pattern matching support

Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2019 00:17:41 +0200

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On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 11:25:56 +0100 Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> wrote:
> Am 12.02.2018 um 18:02 schrieb Calum Mackay:
> > Package: systemd
> > Version: 237-2
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > Dear Maintainer,
> > 
> > The -g/--grep option was recently added to the man page, but:
> > 
> > 	$ journalctl --grep=blah
> > 	Compiled without pattern matching support
> > 
> > this could be a man page bug, of course, although it's a useful feature.
> 
> As the message says, systemd has been compiled without pattern matching
> support. This is deliberate, as this would required linking against
> pcre2, which would basically make this library mandatory on every
> system. That's why I hesitated to enable that feature.

I'm fine with turning this feature on in buster+1.

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Message #40 received at 898892-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>

To: 898892-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#898892: fixed in systemd 242-1

Date: Wed, 08 May 2019 00:04:51 +0000

Source: systemd
Source-Version: 242-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
systemd, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 898892@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> (supplier of updated systemd package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)


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Format: 1.8
Date: Wed, 08 May 2019 01:33:56 +0200
Source: systemd
Architecture: source
Version: 242-1
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian systemd Maintainers <pkg-systemd-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>
Closes: 852580 898892 919231 928102 928615
Changes:
 systemd (242-1) experimental; urgency=medium
 .
   * New upstream version 242
     - Change ownership/mode of the execution directories also for static users
       (Closes: #919231)
     - A new boolean sandboxing option RestrictSUIDSGID= has been added that is
       built on seccomp. When turned on, creation of SUID/SGID files is
       prohibited. The NoNewPrivileges= and the new RestrictSUIDSGID= options
       are now implied if DynamicUser= is turned on for a service.
       (Closes: #928102, CVE-2019-3843, CVE-2019-3844)
   * Drop Revert-udev-network-device-renaming-immediately-give.patch.
     This patch needs ongoing maintenance work to be adapted to new releases
     and fails to apply with v242. Instead of investing more time into it we
     are going to drop the patch as it was a hack anyway.
   * Rebase patches
   * Drop pre-stretch migration code
   * Drop /sbin/udevadm compat symlink (Closes: #852580)
   * socket-util: Make sure flush_accept() doesn't hang on unexpected
     EOPNOTSUPP
   * Enable regexp matching support in journalctl using pcre2 (Closes: #898892)
   * Switch from libidn to libidn2 (Closes: #928615)
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