On Mon Aug 24, 2026 at 2:48 PM CEST, Jörg Sommer via lists.openembedded.org wrote: > From: Randolph Sapp <[email protected]> > > The split of bin and sbin became more artificial over time, and it is no > longer clear why programmes goes into the one or the other directory; e.g. > forever normal users have used sendmail in /usr/sbin, and fdisk and mkfs > learned to operate on files to create images long ago. > > Because systemd drives this movement to have only /usr/bin and symlink /bin, > /sbin and /usr/sbin to there, the usrmerge feature (started by systemd too) > should be extended to include the binmerge. For a system with split bin/sbin > `systemctl status` reports the system as tainted for *unmerged-bin.* > > Override most sbin variables to point to their bin equivalent when > usermerge is enabled, with the exception being base_sbindir_native and > sbindir_native. There is no guarantee the host machine is using this > filesystem scheme. > > This check was added to systemd back in 2024 [2]. > > [1] > https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/filesystem/-/blob/main/PKGBUILD > [2] > https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/844863c61e7b501097da84a1e4d1e4a6aa6d9f0d > > Signed-off-by: Randolph Sapp <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Jörg Sommer <[email protected]> > ---
Hi Jörg, I do note just one failure with this version, in two builds: ERROR: lib32-inetutils-2.8-r0 do_install: Execution of '/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/qemux86-world-alt/build/build/tmp/work/x86-pokymllib32-linux/lib32-inetutils/2.8/temp/run.do_install.4024907' failed with exit code 1 ... | mv: '/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/qemux86-world-alt/build/build/tmp/work/x86-pokymllib32-linux/lib32-inetutils/2.8/image/usr/bin/ifconfig' and '/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/qemux86-world-alt/build/build/tmp/work/x86-pokymllib32-linux/lib32-inetutils/2.8/image/usr/bin/ifconfig' are the same file | WARNING: exit code 1 from a shell command. NOTE: recipe lib32-inetutils-2.8-r0: task do_install: Failed https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/17/builds/4324 https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/25/builds/4479 Thanks, Mathieu -- Mathieu Dubois-Briand, Bootlin Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com
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