Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] systemd: add usrmerge to REQUIRED_DISTRO_FEATURES

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

On Sat, 2023-08-05 at 12:06 +0100, Luca Bocassi wrote:
> From: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@microsoft.com>
> 
> Support for unmerged-usr is deprecated upstream, taints the system and
> has been removed for v255 (next release).
> Enforce building merged-usr images when using systemd. This allows one
> release cycle where it can be tested for any remaining issue, and can
> still be overridden, before it stops working completely.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@microsoft.com>
> ---
> Time to resurrect this. Support for unmerged-usr has been removed and
> will no longer be available starting with v255. Better to get started
> now with the enforcement, so that things can be worked out while it is
> still possible to override it.
> 
>  meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd-compat-units.bb | 2 +-
>  meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd-serialgetty.bb  | 2 +-
>  meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd.inc             | 5 +++++
>  meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_254.bb          | 2 +-
>  4 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Thanks for sending the patch. I did put this in for testing and because
it makes usrmerge required for the systemd-boot recipe, even sysvinit
based images fail builds with errors like:

https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/typhoon/#/builders/37/builds/7580/steps/12/logs/stdio

Is usrmerge needed to systemd-boot as well?

Cheers,

Richard