Richard Purdie <[email protected]> writes:

> On Thu, 2024-10-24 at 16:29 +0200, Esben Haabendal wrote:
>> "Richard Purdie" <[email protected]> writes:
>> 
>> > On Thu, 2024-10-24 at 13:41 +0200, Esben Haabendal via 
>> > lists.openembedded.org wrote:
>> > > Commit 18d46e11d85d ("systemd: fix dead link /var/log/README") broke the
>> > > default systemd behavior when VOLATILE_LOG_DIR is set to false.
>> > > 
>> > > By not creating the /var/log/journal directory, the default configured
>> > > systemd (Storage=auto) will silently revert to just doing volatile
>> > > logging (/run/journal).
>> > > 
>> > > The problem fixed with the above mentioned commit was specifically 
>> > > related
>> > > to configurations where VOLATILE_LOG_DIR is true, in which case it should
>> > > be perfectly fine to not create the /var/log/journal directory, so we
>> > > should be able to keep the fix in place, while not breaking behavior for
>> > > non VOLATILE_LOG_DIR configurations.
>> > > 
>> > > Signed-off-by: Esben Haabendal <[email protected]>
>> > > ---
>> > >  meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_256.6.bb | 2 +-
>> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> > > 
>> > > diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_256.6.bb 
>> > > b/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_256.6.bb
>> > > index 
>> > > 68f15ab065dd5985e4e5cefc2cd005dba5ac9c7f..88ee0c8a7f89726fc9be489f3fc419f9feb37251
>> > >  100644
>> > > --- a/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_256.6.bb
>> > > +++ b/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_256.6.bb
>> > > @@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ EXTRA_OEMESON += "-Dnobody-user=nobody \
>> > >                    -Dsystem-uid-max=999 \
>> > >                    -Dsystem-alloc-gid-min=101 \
>> > >                    -Dsystem-gid-max=999 \
>> > > -                  -Dcreate-log-dirs=false \
>> > > +                  ${@ '-Dcreate-log-dirs=false' if 
>> > > oe.types.boolean(d.getVar('VOLATILE_LOG_DIR')) else '' } \
>> > >                    ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'zeroconf', 
>> > > '-Ddefault-mdns=no -Ddefault-llmnr=no', '', d)} \
>> > >                    "
>> > >  
>> > > 
>> > 
>> > There were recent changes in this area so that is not the correct way
>> > to do this in master.
>> > 
>> > meta/conf/bitbake.conf:BB_RENAMED_VARIABLES[VOLATILE_LOG_DIR] = "is 
>> > obsolete and no longer supported"
>> > 
>> > This does make me wonder about testing :(.
>> 
>> Guilty as charged. Testing was on scarthgap. I currently does not have a
>> working test setup for master.
>> 
>> I guess I will have to wait with this until I can do proper testing
>> then.
>> 
>> I will resend this patch against scarthgap though, as it is valid and
>> tested there.
>
> Our backport policy is such that it needs to be fixed in master first.

Ok. Then it will have to wait a bit then.

>> For master and styhead, I need to change to check
>> FILESYSTEM_PERMS_TABLES instead.
>
> Correct, yes.

/Esben
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