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authorLuca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>2022-04-05 20:37:59 +0100
committerLuca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>2022-04-06 21:54:14 +0100
commit31cd2dd9060decfb5c1341e2b126d3dde643e02a (patch)
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parent124d293268f09881eadd3ec1b91b326a7bf2bd89 (diff)
downloadsystemd-31cd2dd9060decfb5c1341e2b126d3dde643e02a.tar.gz
core: taint if /usr is unmerged
9afd5e7b975e8051c011ff9c07c95e80bd954469 introduced a build-time taint, introduce a runtime one as well, in preparation for removing support for unmerged-usr in a future release
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@@ -353,6 +353,13 @@ WARNINGS and TAINT FLAGS:
For more information on this issue consult
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken
+ systemd will warn if the filesystem is not usr-merged (i.e.: /bin, /sbin
+ and /lib* are not symlinks to their counterparts under /usr). Taint flag
+ 'unmerged-usr' will be set when this condition is detected.
+
+ For more information on this issue consult
+ https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge
+
systemd requires that the /run mount point exists. systemd also
requires that /var/run is a symlink to /run. Taint flag 'var-run-bad'
will be set when this condition is detected.