[OE-core] Removing netbase from an image

[Otavio Salvador]

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 8:17 AM, Jack Mitchell <ml at communistcode.co.uk> wrote:
> I am attempting to remove netbase from a custom image. I would like to
> replace it with connman. I have added connman through EXTRA_IMAGE_INSTALL,
> however netbase is brought in via packagegroup-core-boot.bb which funnily
> enough has some very important features and I would like to keep.
>
> What would be the best way to make this replacement. Should I copy
> packagegroup-core-boot.bb and keep a local copy, while keeping it in sync
> manually? Alternatively, I notice quite a few packages in
> packagegroup-core-boot have a VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_* define. Would it be worth
> having a VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_network ?= "netbase" which could be overridden?
>
> Thoughts?

Even though I agree with Ross that you most probably want to override
the interfaces file I think it is nice to be able to override it and
the VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_network-base would be a good addition for it.

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