On Fri Jul 24, 2026 at 4:05 AM CDT, Jörg Sommer wrote: > Jörg Sommer via lists.openembedded.org schrieb am Fr 24. Jul, 11:00 (+0200): >> From: Randolph Sapp <[email protected]> >> >> 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 <[email protected]> >> Signed-off-by: Jörg Sommer <[email protected]> >> --- >> >> I took Randolph's version and reworked it a bit. But the idea stays the same. > > This is a follow-up to <[email protected]> > https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-core/message/234858
Thanks for taking this forward Jörg. My main build machine is too slow to look at Yocto right now. Trying to requisition more hardware.
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