diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_255.1.bb b/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_255.1.bb
index 9e09c89355..db21b70718 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_255.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_255.1.bb
@@ -382,10 +382,22 @@ do_install() {
 	# add a profile fragment to disable systemd pager with busybox less
 	install -Dm 0644 ${WORKDIR}/systemd-pager.sh ${D}${sysconfdir}/profile.d/systemd-pager.sh
 
-    if [ -n "${WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT}" ]; then
-        sed -i -e 's/#RebootWatchdogSec=10min/RebootWatchdogSec=${WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT}/' \
-            ${D}/${sysconfdir}/systemd/system.conf
-    fi
+	if [ -n "${WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT}" ]; then
+		sed -i -e 's/#RebootWatchdogSec=10min/RebootWatchdogSec=${WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT}/' \
+			${D}/${sysconfdir}/systemd/system.conf
+	fi
+
+	if [ -f "${D}${nonarch_libdir}/tmpfiles.d/legacy.conf" ] \
+		&& grep -q '^L \/var\/log\/README' ${D}${nonarch_libdir}/tmpfiles.d/legacy.conf 2>/dev/null; then
+
+		sed -i -e '/^L \/var\/log\/README/d' ${D}${nonarch_libdir}/tmpfiles.d/legacy.conf
+		touch ${D}${nonarch_libdir}/tmpfiles.d/legacy-doc.conf
+		if "${@'true' if oe.types.boolean(d.getVar('VOLATILE_LOG_DIR')) else 'false'}"; then
+			echo "L /var/log/README - - - - ../../../${datadir}/doc/systemd/README.logs" > ${D}${nonarch_libdir}/tmpfiles.d/legacy-doc.conf
+		else
+			echo "L /var/log/README - - - - ../../${datadir}/doc/systemd/README.logs" > ${D}${nonarch_libdir}/tmpfiles.d/legacy-doc.conf
+		fi
+	fi
 }
 
 python populate_packages:prepend (){
@@ -622,6 +634,8 @@ FILES:${PN}-udev-rules = "\
                         ${rootlibexecdir}/udev/rules.d/99-systemd.rules \
 "
 
+FILES:${PN}-doc  += "${nonarch_libdir}/tmpfiles.d/legacy-doc.conf"
+
 CONFFILES:${PN} = "${sysconfdir}/systemd/coredump.conf \
 	${sysconfdir}/systemd/journald.conf \
 	${sysconfdir}/systemd/logind.conf \