[Bug 1489702] [NEW] FFE: two small new features in networkd and machinectl

[Martin Pitt]

Public bug reported:

systemd 225 was released upstream yesterday:
  http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-August/034036.html

This includes two small new features and the usual lot of bug fixes:

        * machinectl gained a new verb 'shell' which opens a fresh shell on the
          target machine. It is similar to 'login', but spawns the shell
          directly. The pseudo machine '.host' now refers to the local host and
          is used by default. Hence, 'machinectl shell' can be used as
          replacement for 'su' which spawns the session as a fresh systemd
          unit.

        * systemd-networkd learned to cope with private-zone DHCP options and
          allows other programs to query the values.

The package works fine on wily, I'm doing (mostly) daily builds from
upstream, running them through our autopkgtests, and test 225 on my wily
laptop.

Note that we don't use networkd anywhere yet, and machinectl is now in a
separate systemd-container binary package which we don't install by
default any more (it was split out in 224-2).

I would like to ask for a FFE so that we can update to 225 instead of
cherry-picking fixes.

** Affects: systemd (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  FFE: two small new features in networkd and machinectl

Status in systemd package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  systemd 225 was released upstream yesterday:
    http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-August/034036.html

  This includes two small new features and the usual lot of bug fixes:

          * machinectl gained a new verb 'shell' which opens a fresh shell on the
            target machine. It is similar to 'login', but spawns the shell
            directly. The pseudo machine '.host' now refers to the local host and
            is used by default. Hence, 'machinectl shell' can be used as
            replacement for 'su' which spawns the session as a fresh systemd
            unit.

          * systemd-networkd learned to cope with private-zone DHCP options and
            allows other programs to query the values.

  The package works fine on wily, I'm doing (mostly) daily builds from
  upstream, running them through our autopkgtests, and test 225 on my
  wily laptop.

  Note that we don't use networkd anywhere yet, and machinectl is now in
  a separate systemd-container binary package which we don't install by
  default any more (it was split out in 224-2).

  I would like to ask for a FFE so that we can update to 225 instead of
  cherry-picking fixes.

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