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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: [PATCH v2] bitbake.conf: Extend distro feature usrmerge to merge bin+sbin
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2026 09:56:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aolV39x9UzHwcTrZ@navimatix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ada29b3926f0497ef35618685c298cad840f45e0.1784883539.git.joerg.sommer@navimatix.de>

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Jörg Sommer 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.

Gentle ping. What's the state of this?


> 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.
> 
>  meta/classes-recipe/populate_sdk_base.bbclass | 2 ++
>  meta/conf/bitbake.conf                        | 8 ++++----
>  meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_261.1.bb    | 6 +++---
>  3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/meta/classes-recipe/populate_sdk_base.bbclass b/meta/classes-recipe/populate_sdk_base.bbclass
> index b427ff2761..c63601b1da 100644
> --- a/meta/classes-recipe/populate_sdk_base.bbclass
> +++ b/meta/classes-recipe/populate_sdk_base.bbclass
> @@ -189,6 +189,8 @@ create_merged_usr_symlinks() {
>      install -d $root${base_bindir} $root${base_sbindir} $root${base_libdir}
>      ln -rs $root${base_bindir} $root/bin
>      ln -rs $root${base_sbindir} $root/sbin
> +    # if base_sbindir == base_bindir, aka binmerge
> +    test -e $root/usr/sbin || ln -rs $root${base_bindir} $root/usr/sbin
>      ln -rs $root${base_libdir} $root/${baselib}
>  
>      if [ "${nonarch_base_libdir}" != "${base_libdir}" ]; then
> diff --git a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
> index bdf37d0da2..18aa1441e6 100644
> --- a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
> +++ b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
> @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ root_prefix = "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'usrmerge', '${exec_prefi
>  
>  # Base paths
>  export base_bindir = "${root_prefix}/bin"
> -export base_sbindir = "${root_prefix}/sbin"
> +export base_sbindir = "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'usrmerge', '${base_bindir}', '${root_prefix}/sbin', d)}"
>  export base_libdir = "${root_prefix}/${baselib}"
>  export nonarch_base_libdir = "${root_prefix}/lib"
>  
> @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ firmwaredir = "${nonarch_base_libdir}/firmware"
>  
>  # Architecture dependent paths
>  export bindir = "${exec_prefix}/bin"
> -export sbindir = "${exec_prefix}/sbin"
> +export sbindir = "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'usrmerge', '${bindir}', '${exec_prefix}/sbin', d)}"
>  export libdir = "${exec_prefix}/${baselib}"
>  export libexecdir = "${exec_prefix}/libexec"
>  export includedir = "${exec_prefix}/include"
> @@ -66,9 +66,9 @@ bindir_cross = "/bin"
>  bindir_crossscripts = "${bindir}/crossscripts"
>  prefix_nativesdk = "/usr"
>  bindir_nativesdk = "${prefix_nativesdk}/bin"
> -sbindir_nativesdk = "${prefix_nativesdk}/sbin"
> +sbindir_nativesdk = "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'usrmerge', '${bindir_nativesdk}', '${prefix_nativesdk}/sbin', d)}"
>  base_bindir_nativesdk = "/bin"
> -base_sbindir_nativesdk = "/sbin"
> +base_sbindir_nativesdk = "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'usrmerge', '${base_bindir_nativesdk}', '/sbin', d)}"
>  includedir_nativesdk = "${prefix_nativesdk}/include"
>  libdir_nativesdk = "${prefix_nativesdk}/lib"
>  base_libdir_nativesdk = "/lib"
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_261.1.bb b/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_261.1.bb
> index 0a1d4870bf..97a91ff5e2 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_261.1.bb
> +++ b/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_261.1.bb
> @@ -195,7 +195,6 @@ def build_epoch(d):
>  PACKAGECONFIG[set-time-epoch] = "${@build_epoch(d)},-Dtime-epoch=0"
>  PACKAGECONFIG[timedated] = "-Dtimedated=true,-Dtimedated=false"
>  PACKAGECONFIG[timesyncd] = "-Dtimesyncd=true,-Dtimesyncd=false"
> -PACKAGECONFIG[sbinmerge] = "-Dsplit-bin=false,-Dsplit-bin=true"
>  PACKAGECONFIG[userdb] = "-Duserdb=true,-Duserdb=false"
>  PACKAGECONFIG[utmp] = "-Dutmp=true,-Dutmp=false"
>  PACKAGECONFIG[valgrind] = "-DVALGRIND=1,,valgrind"
> @@ -226,6 +225,7 @@ EXTRA_OEMESON += "-Dnobody-user=nobody \
>                    -Dtranslations=${@'false' if d.getVar('USE_NLS') == 'no' else 'true'} \
>                    ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'zeroconf', '-Ddefault-mdns=no -Ddefault-llmnr=no', '', d)} \
>                    -Ddbus=disabled \
> +                  -Dsplit-bin=${@'false' if '${bindir}' == '${sbindir}' else 'true'} \
>                    -Dtests=false \
>                    -Dlibc=${TCLIBC} \
>                    "
> @@ -342,8 +342,8 @@ do_install() {
>  		install -m 0644 ${UNPACKDIR}/org.freedesktop.hostname1_no_polkit.conf ${D}${datadir}/dbus-1/system.d/
>  	fi
>  
> -	# create link for existing udev rules
> -	ln -s ${base_bindir}/udevadm ${D}${base_sbindir}/udevadm
> +	# create link for old udev rules
> +	test -e ${D}${base_sbindir}/udevadm || ln -s ${base_bindir}/udevadm ${D}${base_sbindir}/udevadm
>  
>  	# install default policy for presets
>  	# https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/Preset/#howto
> -- 
> 2.53.0
> 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-08-22  7:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-24  9:00 [PATCH v2] bitbake.conf: Extend distro feature usrmerge to merge bin+sbin Jörg Sommer
2026-07-25  7:34 ` [OE-core] " Mathieu Dubois-Briand
2026-08-22  7:56 ` Jörg Sommer [this message]
2026-08-22 12:16   ` Mathieu Dubois-Briand
2026-08-22 14:09     ` Jörg Sommer
2026-08-24  6:30       ` Mathieu Dubois-Briand
2026-08-24  9:53         ` Jörg Sommer
2026-08-24 10:02           ` Mathieu Dubois-Briand
2026-08-24 12:43             ` Jörg Sommer
2026-08-24 13:10               ` Mathieu Dubois-Briand
2026-08-24 12:48 ` [PATCH v3] " Jörg Sommer
2026-08-24 13:11   ` [OE-core] " Marko, Peter
2026-08-24 15:17     ` joerg.sommer
2026-08-24 16:18       ` Marko, Peter
2026-08-24 17:10       ` Richard Purdie
2026-08-25  7:33   ` Mathieu Dubois-Briand

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