Re: [oe-core][PATCHv2] systemd: fix unmerged-bin tainted message

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

On Fri, 2026-04-10 at 13:27 -0500, rs@ti.com wrote:
> From: Randolph Sapp <rs@ti.com>
> 
> Systemd prefers both /bin and /sbin to link to /usr/bin. If this is not
> the case it reports that the system is tainted in systemctl status.
> 
> Add a link from /usr/sbin to /usr/bin to prevent anything from being
> excluded from the merged bin directory. This mimics the current merged
> bin directory structure of Arch Linux [1].
> 
> Update the systemd recipe to prevent creating a duplicate link when
> sbinmerge is enabled.
> 
> 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

Just to be clear, whilst I understand the issue and people wanting to
fix this, I'm not going to take this into wrynose. The failures and
other issues the fix has caused shows it isn't a safe/easy fix and
we'll have to give it a bit more thought in the next development cycle.

Cheers,

Richard