[OE-core] [PATCH RFC 0/2] eliminate (almost all of) busybox for GNUish images

[Marcin Juszkiewicz]

W dniu 10.10.2012 00:21, Andy Ross pisze:
> We've been attempting to build an image that is busybox-free.
> Unfortunately there are a handful of busybox applets which are used in
> existing functionality (mostly various initscripts) and for which
> oe-core has no packaged replacements:
> 
> + /usr/bin/run-parts - part of upstream debianutils, unpackaged.
> 
> + /sbin/start-stop-daemon - part of upstream dpkg, built by oe-core
>   recipe but unpackaged.
> 
> + /sbin/if{up,down} - upstream ifupdown, but busybox version is AFAICT
>   quite divergent.
> 
> These are all tiny, and probably not worth having in distinct binaries.
> The attached patch breaks out a separate "busybox-oe-min" package that
> can be installed in images that don't need or want the full busybox
> binary.  It comes to 41kb on my x86 build.
> 
> Note that busybox is still pulled in by packagegroup-core-boot, so none of
> the existing images will use this package without modification.

In OE Classic we had task-proper-tools which replaced busybox and gave
working images.