Re: Support for unmerged-usr systems will be REMOVED in the second half of 2023

[Richard Purdie <rpurdie@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2022-09-20 at 19:18 +0000, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Following this thread started back in April:
> 
> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2022-April/047673.html
> 
> As far as we understand there are no distributions running or
> optionally supporting systemd that have not either completed, or at
> least started, the transition to merged-usr systems.

For the record and to be really clear, Yocto Project has systemd
support but also supports arbitrary filesystem layout. We have not
planned or agreed to drop that filesystem layout configuration/support.
It is actively used today by our user base today, perfectly fine.

The statement above is therefore misleading as there are distributions
out there which have not even agreed to the change and are not planning
a transition.

I was asked by Luca to test the "usr-merge" config with systemd and it
failed in our CI, which is sadly what I suspected would happen. It
takes time in itself to even queue up these kinds of tests and process
the results. I did this several months ago and have seen no interest or
help in fixing the result.

This change from systemd effectively mandates we change our
configuration to match what systemd dictates and only support that. I
don't like what that represents and don't consider it a positive
development.


Regards,

Richard