[systemd-devel] Support for unmerged-usr systems will be REMOVED in the second half of 2023

[Richard Purdie]

On Tue, 2023-06-13 at 16:13 +0100, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jun 2023 at 16:01, Richard Purdie
> <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 2023-06-13 at 15:56 +0100, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> > > Nobody is retroactively changing existing systemd releases.
> > > 
> > > Stay on a previously released systemd version which will continue to
> > > have features it used to have.
> > 
> > I've seen the responses to bug reports with "not latest" releases of
> > systemd so I doubt that is really to be recommended.
> > 
> 
> I don't believe Yocto is a blocker to land this change in the new
> systemd upstream release, given the sufficient notice previously
> issued.

I don't think it will block it and I didn't ask that. The position of
systemd was already previously made perfectly clear.

I'm just noting that despite me asking for help from both Yocto Project
and systemd sides, despite running the tests asked for and despite
fixing the unit test that was identified as problematic, the key parts
of the migration are still not resolved for Yocto Project.

If I said nothing, I'd be told it was our fault for not saying
anything. If I say something, it is our fault/problem too. I can't win
really! :)

> If Yocto is so out of date, affected users can also migrate to other
> embedded immutable distributions available out there: Ubuntu Core,
> Fedora IOT, openSUSE MicroOS and similar.

It isn't out of date, in many ways it stays more current than some of
the above. It is much more customisable and doesn't have to look like a
standard desktop distro. It also handles a number of issues such as
reproducbility and software manifests/licensing to a next level of
detail compared to others.

Cheers,

Richard