[Buildroot] [PATCH 3/3] package/skeleton: ensure custom skeleton uses merged /usr if needed
Yann E. MORIN
yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Wed Nov 11 12:52:15 UTC 2015
Peter, All,
On 2015-11-11 00:22 +0100, Peter Korsgaard spake thusly:
> >>>>> "Yann" == Yann E MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr> writes:
>
> > When using systemd, the poolicy in Buildroot is to use a merged /usr
> > (see c5bd8af6, "system: add options for /bin /sbin and /lib to be
> > symlinks into /usr" for more info). So, we apply a few tricks in some
> > packages to account for the merged /usr case.
>
> > However, when using a custom skeleton, we have no say in how that
> > skeleton is organised, so it may well have a split /usr. In that case,
> > our little tricks might not work as expected.
>
> > So, when the user uses a custom skeleton and wants systemd as an init
> > system, we must check that the custom skeleton is setup with a merged
> > /usr.
>
> > We do that by checking that each pair of {/lib,/usr/lib} {/bin,/usr/bin}
> > and {/sbin,/usr/sbin} have the same inode numbers, i.e. /lib must have
> > the same inode number as /usr/lib (and so on...). When a pair does not
> > share the same inode number, this is not a merged /usr and we abort.
>
> > We implement that check with make constructs, so it is done very early
> > in the build process, and we can abort early if need be.
>
> Nice. It doesn't handle cases where absolute symlinks are used
> (E.G. /bin -> /usr/bin), but I don't see how we can fix that.
In that situation, then target/bin would indeed point to /usr/bin would
point to the host's /usr/bin and that would break horribly as soon as a
package would try to install something in there.
Well, that is not a change from the previous behaviour. that case was
broken (aka unsupported) previously, it is still broken.
Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.
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