[OE-core] Bringing an image from OE to OE-Core

[Joshua Lock]

On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 16:03 -0400, Philip Balister wrote:
> On 10/05/2011 03:35 PM, Khem Raj wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 7:14 AM, Philip Balister<philip at balister.org>  wrote:
> >>
> >> 1) I do not want rpm in the image. This would confuse my customer base.
> >> 2) I am tired of dropbear, I want openssh only.
> >> 3) I need the full versions of tools, not the busybox ones.
> >> 4) I am not limited to gpv2 software.
> >>
> >> Richard, it looks to me like we should add an item for the next Yocto
> >> development cycle to review how images are built and try to make the base
> >> stuff in oe-core more usable by everyone. We need to define what choices are
> >> made by distros. For example opkg, rpm, no package management in image.
> >> Images may want dropbear or openssh.
> >>
> >> Short term, I think I'll copy the tasks/images into my bsp and get some
> >> stuff together for testing. I'd like a better long term solution though.
> >
> > There always will be customizations needed. But we can strive for
> > better basic blocks
> 
> Sure. The immediate things I noticed are rpm being installed and lack of 
> a way to chose between dropbear/openssh.

Core images automatically include the correct package manager when the
image feature package-management is defined for the image.

It would be nice to define a variable/feature to control SSH server.

Regards,
Joshua
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Joshua Lock
        Yocto Project "Johannes factotum"
        Intel Open Source Technology Centre