Re: [OE-core][PATCH 2/2] systemd: add shell-profile-dropins PACKAGECONFIG

[ChenQi <Qi.Chen@windriver.com>]

On 1/23/26 21:06, Paul Barker wrote:
> On Thu, 2026-01-15 at 10:19 +0800, Chen Qi via lists.openembedded.org
> wrote:
>> From: Chen Qi <Qi.Chen@windriver.com>
>>
>> New version of systemd introduces dropins in /etc/profile.d. This
>> is usually OK for most cases. But in case of using minicom to connect
>> to the machine, there will be unnecessary output every time you type
>> a command.
>>
>> This is because the /etc/profile.d/80-systemd-osc-context.sh[1] is setting
>> PS0 with OSC 3008 standard[2]. If a terminal (e.g., minicom) cannot
>> deal with this OSC 3008 standard, it will just output the whole contents.
>> This is quite annoying.
>>
>> So add a new PACKAGECONFIG, shell-profile-dropins, to allow users a choice
>> to disable such behavior.
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/dadbb34919abd3fefeb5b8ccc9794da9398a2503
>> [2] https://uapi-group.org/specifications/specs/osc_context/
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Chen Qi <Qi.Chen@windriver.com>
> Qi,
>
> There may be other files in profile.d as well as
> 80-systemd-osc-context.sh. In systemd 258.x, I also see
> 70-systemd-shell-extra.sh. I don't think we should offer the option of
> disabling install of all systemd profile.d files in order to fix
> incompatibility with just one of them.
>
> There have been changes to 80-systemd-osc-context.sh in systemd 259. We
> could try backporting 705e2ef19418 ("profile/osc-context: move and
> extend check for TERM=dumb") if we're not ready to update to 259 yet and
> see if that resolves the issue. We may also need dd20ba74e3b4
> ("profile/systemd-osc-context: fix overriding of PROMPT_COMMAND") and
> 97ad10c9aab1 ("profile: skip setting PS0 when PROMPT_COMMAND= is
> cleared"), I'm not sure.
>
> Best regards, i
>
Hi Paul,

Thanks for checking upstream status.

I think you're right. The commits you mentioned above are likely to fix 
the issue.

I'll double check when upgrading systemd to 259.x.

Regards,
Qi