Dead symlink in /var/log/README

[b3n-l]

On boot, the file /var/log/README is created automatically by systemd as part of the 'legacy files'.

As we don't include systemd-doc, this symlink is broken.

The file causing this is tmpfiles.d/legacy.conf from the systemd repo.

This is an upstream issue, which has been patched in Yocto >4.2 openembedded/openembedded-core@18d46e1 however, this change may itself be a problem.
It isn't clear to me whether that would stop systemd creating log directories at runtime in /var/log, or if it is limited to install time.

Another approach I have seen is: openembedded/openembedded-core@ac4c9f5#diff-17f6e12c28058e9bcbaddfa8ea71f60a3e16ca4b5e9a08bc67947f3ad9f7b575 which disables the legacy files creation.

[KanjiMonster]

It was very confusing that the older commit referenced a commit with the same subject as the newer commit.

I think the path forward is here to submit the required commits as patches to be backported to kirkstone, shouldn't be too much work.

I can take care of that once I'm back.