[OE-core] [RFC][PATCH] systemd: Remove clearly incorrect musl patches

[Khem Raj]

On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 1:15 AM Adrian Bunk <bunk at stusta.de> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 12:59:05PM -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 4:44 AM Richard Purdie <
> > richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, 2019-06-14 at 10:29 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > > This removes clearly incorrect musl patches and marks
> > > > systemd as incompatible with musl until these issues
> > > > are fixed.
> > > >
> > > > The previous status quo where systemd was made compiling
> > > > with patches that are known to introduce bugs and security
> > > > vulnerabilities silently delivered a sub-standard package
> > > > to users, this change makes it clear where work is needed
> > > > to be done by people interested in systemd on musl.
> > > >
> > > > Patches that are merely questionable or not upstreamable
> > > > are not touched.
> > >
> > > I'll be interested to see what others think of this, I can't imagine
> > > this move being very popular...
> >
> > There are real products using this combination
>
> An OE-only combination neither upstream supports.
>
> > And this is not a good message, eventually we want to either fix or stop
> > supporting this but I think now is not the time
>
> When is the time?
>
> In a month?
> Before the Yocto 2.8 branching?
> After the Yocto 2.8 branching?
>

When users that I know stop using it, and that might be a release or
two. Meanwhile
I think it will be good to address the issues with patches, if they
introduce bugs or secvulns
that I think will help the user community instead of removing the support.

meanwhile, I would think that we can still work slowly towards making
things better
musl has provided a lot of good cleanup patches for systemd so this is
not a wasted
effort even if upstream systemd does not officially support anything
besides glibc.

> The best solution would be if someone would step up to properly maintain
> the systemd/musl combination, but usually such "either fix or stop" only
> work with a clear deadline.
>



> cu
> Adrian
>
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