[OE-core] [PATCH] dropbear: don't use IMAGE_FEATURES

Otavio Salvador otavio at ossystems.com.br
Mon Jan 7 11:22:12 UTC 2013


On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com> wrote:
> * IMAGE_FEATURES are image specific, but dropbear recipe isn't
> * if you have debug-tweaks in EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES or added to
>   IMAGE_FEATURES in distro config, then it will set DISTRO_TYPE
>   to debug as expected, but if you add debug-tweaks only in
>   your-own-debug-image, then dropbear never sees debug-tweaks and
>   your-own-debug-image won't allow empty password login.
> * best way would be to patch dropbear to enable empty password by
>   runtime config or argument and enable it in ROOTFS_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND
>   like openssh_allow_empty_password does, see
>   http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.network.ssh.dropbear/845
>
> Signed-off-by: Martin Jansa <Martin.Jansa at gmail.com>

I just fail to see why to keep using DISTRO_TYPE in dropbear in this
case. You could just always include the patch.

Do you have any specific reason?

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