system: add options for /bin /sbin and /lib to be symlinks into /usr

systemd is increasingly expecting things to live in /usr/bin, /usr/sbin
or /usr/lib nad not in /bin, /sbin or /lib. It has inherited those
expectations from a Fedora change:
    https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UsrMove

Note however, that systemd does support /usr being on a separate
filesystem; it just expects an initramfs to mount it before the final
switchroot over to the actual rootfs.

But the traditional use-case for Buildroot is not to boot with an
initramfs; although that is totally feasible, that's probably not what
is commonly done in the vast majority of cases.

However, a lot of packages still install stuff directly into /bin,
/sbin or /lib, which systemd may need early-on in the boot process,
even before it may have a chance to mount /usr. Even though we can
tell systemd, at configure-time, where it should expect programs to
be at runtime, it does not make sense to go head-first against an
upstream wa^Hill.

Add an option so that /bin, /sbin and /lib be symlinks to /usr/bin
and /usr/sbin. That option is forcibly enabled when the init system
is systemd.

Note: we need not handle /lib32 or /lib64, as they already are symlinks
to /lib, which means they will automatically be redirected to /usr/lib,
as /usr/lib32 and /usr/lib64 already are.

Furthermore, this means we're no longer supporting a split-usr setup, so
the corresponding configure options have been removed as well for
systemd and, when using a merged /usr, for eudev as well.

In Buildroot, we decided (with this patch) not to support a split-usr
when systemd is used as an init system. This is a design decision, not
a systemd issue. Thus the select is with BR2_INIT_SYSTEMD rather than
with BR2_PACKAGE_SYSTEMD.

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Mike Williams <mike@mikebwilliams.com>
Cc: Vicente Olivert Riera <Vincent.Riera@imgtec.com>
Cc: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
Tested-by: Mike Williams <mike@mikebwilliams.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/package/skeleton/skeleton.mk b/package/skeleton/skeleton.mk
index 48e708515d..920d3b42d3 100644
--- a/package/skeleton/skeleton.mk
+++ b/package/skeleton/skeleton.mk
@@ -19,15 +19,29 @@ else
 SKELETON_PATH = system/skeleton
 endif
 
+ifeq ($(BR2_ROOTFS_MERGED_USR),y)
+define SKELETON_USR_SYMLINKS_OR_DIRS
+	ln -snf usr/bin $(TARGET_DIR)/bin
+	ln -snf usr/sbin $(TARGET_DIR)/sbin
+	ln -snf usr/lib $(TARGET_DIR)/lib
+endef
+else
+define SKELETON_USR_SYMLINKS_OR_DIRS
+	$(INSTALL) -d -m 0755 $(TARGET_DIR)/bin
+	$(INSTALL) -d -m 0755 $(TARGET_DIR)/sbin
+	$(INSTALL) -d -m 0755 $(TARGET_DIR)/lib
+endef
+endif
+
 define SKELETON_INSTALL_TARGET_CMDS
 	rsync -a --ignore-times $(SYNC_VCS_EXCLUSIONS) \
 		--chmod=u=rwX,go=rX --exclude .empty --exclude '*~' \
 		$(SKELETON_PATH)/ $(TARGET_DIR)/
-	$(INSTALL) -m 0644 support/misc/target-dir-warning.txt \
-		$(TARGET_DIR_WARNING_FILE)
+	$(SKELETON_USR_SYMLINKS_OR_DIRS)
 	ln -snf lib $(TARGET_DIR)/$(LIB_SYMLINK)
-	mkdir -p $(TARGET_DIR)/usr
 	ln -snf lib $(TARGET_DIR)/usr/$(LIB_SYMLINK)
+	$(INSTALL) -m 0644 support/misc/target-dir-warning.txt \
+		$(TARGET_DIR_WARNING_FILE)
 endef
 
 SKELETON_TARGET_GENERIC_HOSTNAME = $(call qstrip,$(BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_HOSTNAME))