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

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

On Fri Apr 10, 2026 at 8:27 PM CEST, rs 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
>
> Signed-off-by: Randolph Sapp <rs@ti.com>
> ---

Hi Randolph,

Thanks for your patch. This triggering some issues because of missing
folders.

Jörg suggested a fix for net-tools, but we have other failures, at least
one with tcf-agent:

ERROR: tcf-agent-1.9.0-r0 do_package: QA Issue: tcf-agent: Files/directories were installed but not shipped in any package:
  /usr/sbin/tcf-client
  /usr/sbin/tcf-agent
Please set FILES such that these items are packaged. Alternatively if they are unneeded, avoid installing them or delete them within do_install.
tcf-agent: 2 installed and not shipped files. [installed-vs-shipped]

https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/10/builds/3574
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/9/builds/3557

Can you have a look at the issue?

Thanks,
Mathieu


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