Re: [OE-core] [PATCH v2] bitbake.conf: Extend distro feature usrmerge to merge bin+sbin

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH v2] bitbake.conf: Extend distro feature usrmerge to merge bin+sbin

[Jörg Sommer]

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Jörg Sommer via lists.openembedded.org schrieb am Fr 24. Jul, 11:00 (+0200):
> From: Randolph Sapp <rs@ti.com>
> 
> 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 <rs@ti.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jörg Sommer <joerg.sommer@navimatix.de>
> ---
> 
> I took Randolph's version and reworked it a bit. But the idea stays the same.

This is a follow-up to <20260408195024.1874335-2-rs@ti.com>
https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-core/message/234858


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Re: [OE-core] [PATCH v2] bitbake.conf: Extend distro feature usrmerge to merge bin+sbin

[Randolph Sapp]

On Fri Jul 24, 2026 at 4:05 AM CDT, Jörg Sommer wrote:
> Jörg Sommer via lists.openembedded.org schrieb am Fr 24. Jul, 11:00 (+0200):
>> From: Randolph Sapp <rs@ti.com>
>> 
>> 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 <rs@ti.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Jörg Sommer <joerg.sommer@navimatix.de>
>> ---
>> 
>> I took Randolph's version and reworked it a bit. But the idea stays the same.
>
> This is a follow-up to <20260408195024.1874335-2-rs@ti.com>
> https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-core/message/234858

Thanks for taking this forward Jörg. My main build machine is too slow to look
at Yocto right now. Trying to requisition more hardware.