Re: [PATCH 1/1] systemd: add back alternatives for init utitilies

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Fri, 2018-10-19 at 13:19 +0800, Chen Qi wrote:
> Add back alternatives for init utilities to avoid regression.
> 
> These alternatives were removed when upgradeing systemd to 239.
> They were removed out of the logic that init utitilies should be
> bound to init manager. However, it turned out that two use cases
> were not covered.
> 
> 1) initramfs using commands like 'reboot' from busybox.
> 2) Users use customized busybox defconfig which enables init
> utilities.
> 
> The first use case caused a regression bug in yocto.
>   https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12914
> Patches were sent to fix the reboot problem.
> 
> But this is not enough. As we may have the second use case. In such
> situation, users will find themselves having regression error when
> using 'busybox + systemd' (and busybox is installed after systemd,
> overriding the systemd symlinks).
> 
> So in order to avoid regression, add back these alternatives.
> 
> Signed-off-by

There is something odd going on which this change since it triggers:

https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/typhoon/#/builders/35/builds/95/steps/7/logs/step7c

I've isolated it to this change having initially thought it was Mark's
systemd change...

Cheers,

Richard