From: "Jörg Sommer" <joerg.sommer@navimatix.de>
To: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org,
richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org, ross.burton@arm.com,
mathieu.dubois-briand@bootlin.com, rs@ti.com
Subject: Re: [OE-core] [PATCH v2] bitbake.conf: Extend distro feature usrmerge to merge bin+sbin
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2026 11:05:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <amMqIdRgjjuYsnAI@navimatix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18C52E3640016A00.1442561@lists.openembedded.org>
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Jörg Sommer via lists.openembedded.org schrieb am Fr 24. Jul, 11:00 (+0200):
> From: Randolph Sapp <rs@ti.com>
>
> The split of bin and sbin became more artificial over time, and it is no
> longer clear why programmes goes into the one or the other directory; e.g.
> forever normal users have used sendmail in /usr/sbin, and fdisk and mkfs
> learned to operate on files to create images long ago.
>
> Because systemd drives this movement to have only /usr/bin and symlink /bin,
> /sbin and /usr/sbin to there, the usrmerge feature (started by systemd too)
> should be extended to include the binmerge. For a system with split bin/sbin
> `systemctl status` reports the system as tainted for *unmerged-bin.*
>
> 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>
> Signed-off-by: Jörg Sommer <joerg.sommer@navimatix.de>
> ---
>
> I took Randolph's version and reworked it a bit. But the idea stays the same.
This is a follow-up to <20260408195024.1874335-2-rs@ti.com>
https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-core/message/234858
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