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

[Saul Wold]

On 10/05/2011 01:03 PM, 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.
>
> I think it is worth having a conversation to find out if when can make
> it easier for users to create images, with a small number of knobs to turn.
>
I agree, your 4 items above make sense and we could create a set of 
tasks that can be use it as building blocks, I think that 
task-core-basic could be a starting point for that.

We did work to enable the selection of either openssh/dropbear but at an 
IMAGE_FEATURE level, not as a DISTRO_FEATURE or virtual.

Let's see what you come up with for your tasks and we can go from there.

Thanks
Sau!

> Philip
>
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