Re: [OE-core][PATCH] systemd: upgrade from 258.1 to 259.1

["Mathieu Dubois-Briand" <mathieu.dubois-briand@bootlin.com>]

On Mon Feb 9, 2026 at 9:02 AM CET, Chen Qi via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> From: Chen Qi <Qi.Chen@windriver.com>
>
> Changes with v259:
> https://github.com/systemd/systemd/releases/tag/v259
>
> The 'iptc' PACKAGECONFIG is dropped, because:
> """
> systemd-networkd and systemd-nspawn no longer support creating NAT
> rules via iptables/libiptc APIs; only nftables is now supported.
> """
>
> Add 'empower' group for systemd. See commit below:
> https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/3150c342705f4ac27f2b3299ac0961e7a70e4451
>
> This new version has big change on musl support.
> """
> Incomplete support for musl libc is now available by setting the
> "libc" meson option to "musl".
> ...
> This support for musl is provided without a promise of continued
> support in future releases.
> """
> See https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/main/NEWS#L562 for more details.
>
> Here are some examples:
> - The musl specific '-D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE' could be dropped because:
>   https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/fb33d20c072f2e7c3d500f00f8c04c99271f34c1
> - The 0017-Always-include-netinet-if_ether.h-first.patch and '-D__UAPI_DEF_ETHHDR=0
>   could be dropped because:
>   https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/8324ef421373c84b5034bf47b84fe42d84b1032f
> - The 0015-Avoid-sequence-point-error.patch could be dropped because:
>   https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/ebbc0ea7fd764c870bb8689111138b4f73854d42
>
> With the above musl support, here are the changes for this 259.1 recipe:
> - Add '-Dlibc=${TCLIBC}' configure option.
> - The musl warning, do_warn_musl, is removed.
> - *ALL* musl specific patches are dropped.
>   Any further fix for musl should be sent to systemd upstream.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chen Qi <Qi.Chen@windriver.com>
> ---

Hi Jan-Simon,

Please note this commit will break meta-agl, as iptc PACKAGECONFIG is
being dropped:

ERROR: systemd-1_259.1-r0 do_recipe_qa: QA Issue: systemd: invalid PACKAGECONFIG(s): iptc [invalid-packageconfig]

https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/55/builds/2997

Thanks,
Mathieu

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Mathieu Dubois-Briand, Bootlin
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