Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] systemd: Stop supporting sysvinit compatibility

Richard Purdie
2026-02-16T08:45:30Z

On Mon, 2026-02-16 at 08:42 +0100, Vyacheslav Yurkov wrote:
> On 16.02.2026 07:51, Mathieu Dubois-Briand via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> > Just in case: I also noted following selftests:
> >
> > bbclasses.Systemd.test_systemd_and_sysvinit_in_distro
> > overlayfs.OverlayFSTests.test_not_all_units_installed
> > overlayfs.OverlayFSTests.test_not_all_units_installed_but_qa_skipped
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mathieu
>
> Overlayfs feature doesn't use sysvinit.

Some of the overlayfs tests still have sysvinit compatibility enabled
which is why these tests started failing. I have a patch which tweaks
those just to use systemd only which fixes that.

Cheers,

Richard