[Buildroot] [PATCH] system: add options for /bin /sbin and /lib to be symlinks into /usr

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Wed Sep 2 07:10:51 UTC 2015


Dear Yann E. MORIN,

On Wed,  2 Sep 2015 00:55:13 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> systemd is incresaingly expected things to live in /usr/bin or
> /usr/sbin.
> 
> However, a lot of packages stil install stuff directly into /bin or
> /sbin.
> 
> Add an option so that /bin and /sbin be symlinks to /usr/bin and
> /usr/sbin. Ditto for .lib for consistency.
> 
> That option is forcibly enabled when the init system is systemd.
> 
> Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>

But do we actually need this? Vicente sent a patch to fix the systemd
issues that were discussed on the list:

   [PATCH] systemd: override the path for kill, sulogin, mount and umount

Thomas
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