[OE-core] [PATCH 0/2] initrd contamination and explict PATH

[Richard Purdie]

On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 15:41 -0700, Darren Hart wrote:
> I ran into a bit of a nasty issue where EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES set in my
> local.conf was causing core-image-initramfs to pull a bunch of files into
> my initrd, including bash and a 100+MB vmlinux image. The 85M initrd caused
> some strange initial boot behavior, and bash in the initrd caused our init
> scripts to fail as bash has a different default PATH than busybox.
> 
> The following patches address these issues.
> 
> Live boot tested on 32 bit x86.
> 
> The following changes since commit bb4a5c44da23a1bb363f1f081cf1644fd7975957:
> 
>   linux-yocto: remove emenlow from meta-yocto bbappend (2.6.37 version) (2011-09-15 11:27:22 +0100)
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
>   git://git.pokylinux.org/poky-contrib dvhart/initrdscripts
>   http://git.pokylinux.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=dvhart/initrdscripts
> 
> Darren Hart (2):
>   Set an explicit path for the initrd scripts
>   Prevent IMAGE_FEATURES from contaminating initrd
> 
>  .../images/core-image-minimal-initramfs.bb         |    3 +++
>  meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/files/init-boot.sh |    2 ++
>  .../initrdscripts/files/init-install.sh            |    2 ++
>  meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/files/init-live.sh |    4 +++-
>  4 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

Merged to master but I had to add PR bumps for the script PATH changes.

We shouldn't really be hardcoding the paths but using the expressions
${bindir} etc and making substitutions in the scripts too but we can
leave that issue for another time (they already had other hardcoded
issues).

Cheers,

Richard