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Dead symlink in /var/log/README #222

Open b3n-l opened 4 weeks ago

b3n-l commented 4 weeks ago

On boot, the file /var/log/README is created automatically by systemd as part of the 'legacy files'.

As we don't include systemd-doc, this symlink is broken.

The file causing this is tmpfiles.d/legacy.conf from the systemd repo.

This is an upstream issue, which has been patched in Yocto >4.2 https://github.com/openembedded/openembedded-core/commit/18d46e11d85da1f6feaba5a135931e43060024d6 however, this change may itself be a problem. It isn't clear to me whether that would stop systemd creating log directories at runtime in /var/log, or if it is limited to install time.

Another approach I have seen is: https://github.com/openembedded/openembedded-core/commit/ac4c9f5aa967507d028caa3ee70f3fce580f9a09#diff-17f6e12c28058e9bcbaddfa8ea71f60a3e16ca4b5e9a08bc67947f3ad9f7b575 which disables the legacy files creation.

KanjiMonster commented 4 weeks ago

It was very confusing that the older commit referenced a commit with the same subject as the newer commit.

I think the path forward is here to submit the required commits as patches to be backported to kirkstone, shouldn't be too much work.

I can take care of that once I'm back.