Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 1/2] readyfd2sd: add recipe

["Mathieu Dubois-Briand" <mathieu.dubois-briand@bootlin.com>]

On Mon Jul 13, 2026 at 11:56 AM CEST, Lucas Stach wrote:
> Hi Mathieu,
>
> Am Sonntag, dem 05.07.2026 um 10:21 +0200 schrieb Mathieu Dubois-
> Briand:
>> On Thu Jul 2, 2026 at 8:20 PM CEST, Lucas Stach wrote:
>> > Some services, such as seatd, only implement the s6 init ready notifications.
>> > readyfd2sd translates those notifications to the systemd-notify format, to
>> > make them usable with the systemd init system.
>> > 
>> > Signed-off-by: Lucas Stach <l.stach@pengutronix.de>
>> > ---
>> 
>> Hi Lucas,
>> 
>> Thanks for your patch.
>> 
>> It looks like this is failing with non-systemd distro.
>> 
>> WARNING: Nothing PROVIDES 'systemd' (but /srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/qemuarm64-armhost/build/layers/openembedded-core/meta/recipes-core/readyfd2sd/readyfd2sd_git.bb DEPENDS on or otherwise requires it)
>> systemd was skipped: using DISTRO 'poky', which is missing required DISTRO_FEATURES: 'systemd usrmerge'
>> 
>> https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/8/builds/4108
>> https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/6/builds/4095
>> https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/3/builds/4133
>> https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/37/builds/4314
>> https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/59/builds/4097
>> 
>> Can eadyfd2sd be built without systemd?
>> 
> No, that doesn't make sense, as readyfd2sd is an adapter to a systemd
> API, so there is a hard dependency there. It's also only added as a
> dependency to seatd when systemd support is enabled.
>
> What's the correct way to avoid the build in the autobuild? Will a
> check for REQUIRED_DISTRO_FEATURES do the right thing?
>

I suspect following lines will indeed fix the issue:

inherit features_check
REQUIRED_DISTRO_FEATURES += "systemd"

You should be able to verity this locally by using "poky" distro.

Thanks,
Mathieu

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