Re: [PATCH] memory-control: fix build failure on non-systemd distros

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

On Mon Jul 13, 2026 at 5:01 PM CEST, Ishaan Desai wrote:
> The recipe unconditionally declared RDEPENDS on 'systemd', which is an
> init manager, not an installable package. On distros like poky that do
> not enable the systemd DISTRO_FEATURE, the dependency resolver cannot
> satisfy this, causing the recipe and anything that inherits
> memory-control.bbclass to become unbuildable in a world build:
>
>   ERROR: Nothing RPROVIDES 'systemd'
>   NOTE: Runtime target 'memory-control' is unbuildable
>
> Fix by adding 'inherit features_check' and REQUIRED_DISTRO_FEATURES =
> "systemd" to the recipe so it is cleanly skipped on non-systemd distros,
> removing 'systemd' from RDEPENDS:${PN} in the recipe (the tool shells out
> to systemctl at runtime, but systemd is an init manager present on the
> running system, not a package dependency to install), and guarding the
> RDEPENDS injection in memory-control.bbclass with bb.utils.contains so
> recipes that inherit the class do not pull in the memory-control package
> on non-systemd distros. Also add the missing RECIPE_MAINTAINER entry to
> maintainers.inc.
>
> Reported-by: Mathieu Dubois-Briand <mathieu.dubois-briand@bootlin.com>
> AI-Generated: Uses IBM Bob
>
> Signed-off-by: Ishaan Desai <Ishaan.Desai@ibm.com>
> ---

Hi Ishaan,

The first version was not merged, so please squash your changes in it.

Thanks,
Mathieu

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