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

[Michael Biebl]

On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 11:25:56 +0100 Michael Biebl  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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Bug#890265: systemd: journalctl compiled without pattern matching support

[Simon McVittie]

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  and
.

smcv

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

[Michael Biebl]

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

[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.

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  libaudit11:2.8.1-2
ii  libblkid12.30.2-0.1
ii  libc62.25-4
ii  libcap2  1:2.25-1.2
ii  libcryptsetup12  2:2.0.1-1
ii  libgcrypt20  1.8.1-4
ii  libgpg-error01.27-5
ii  libidn11 1.33-2
ii  libip4tc01.6.1-2+b1
ii  libkmod2 24-1
ii  liblz4-1 0.0~r131-2+b1
ii  liblzma5 5.2.2-1.3
ii  libmount12.30.2-0.1
ii  libpam0g 1.1.8-3.6
ii  libseccomp2  2.3.1-2.1
ii  libselinux1  2.7-2
ii  libsystemd0  237-2
ii  mount2.30.2-0.1
ii  procps   2:3.3.12-3
ii  util-linux   2.30.2-0.1

Versions of packages systemd recommends:
ii  dbus1.12.2-1
ii  libpam-systemd  237-2

Versions of packages systemd suggests:
ii  policykit-10.105-18
pn  systemd-container  

Versions of packages systemd is related to:
pn  dracut   
ii  initramfs-tools  0.130
ii  udev 235-3

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


-- no debconf information