Add “official” systemd units?

[hg]

Hello,

netbird has been maintained in the Arch Linux User repository since 2021, and recently Arch developers have expressed interest in packaging it in the official repository.

Would you be willing to merge hand-rolled systemd .service files instead of (or in addition to) netbird service install?

• the client config is a templated unit which allows the user to create & start multiple client instances by using systemctl enable --now netbird@foo netbird@bar netbird@baz (the part after the @ matches the name of the config file in /etc/netbird)
• all units provide partial sandboxing from the rest of the system (Add sandboxing and strip privileges on Linux with systemd #378, although netbird pretty much requires root or CAP_NET_ADMIN these days, they were much stricter in the past). The flags have been there for years and are pretty well tested by now.
• they can be used by other Linux distributions as the project gets more adoption

The files are here. I can prepare a PR if you're interested, or you can just copy them from there.

If you'd rather stay with netbird service install, Arch (and others in the future) will probably ship their own units.

Thanks.

[mlsmaycon]

Hello @hg this is awesome. We are interested in the PR.

We are organizing the packaging files in the release_files path, but we are open to suggestions to make it clear.

Thanks for reaching out and for maintaining the package in the Arch Linux User repository.

[lfarkas]

i also vote for a separate service file not the generated one. it'd be much easier on all distro to use the same official service file!