[OE-core] [PATCH] watchdog: kill update-rc.d when not using sysvinit

[Christopher Larson]

On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 5:53 AM, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:

> On 29 July 2015 at 21:09, Christopher Larson <chris_larson at mentor.com>
> wrote:
>
>> The dependency on initscripts via VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_initscripts is a
>>> DEPENDS, so it's build time.  The runtime dependency is on
>>> initscripts-functions.
>>>
>>> As far as I'm aware the sysv-generator used the rcX.d symlinks generated
>>> by update-rcd to decide what to start when, so you can't just disable the
>>> class and expect it to still work.
>>>
>>
>> VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_initscripts is installed at runtime (as you can tell by
>> its name) in packagegroup-core-boot and packagegroup-core-full-cmdline
>> both. If I don’t want it in my images, wiping the variable is the only
>> method that makes any sense.
>
>
> So there's the problem, and breaking watchdog isn't solving it.


I don’t think taking a package that won’t even install, breaking image
creation entirely, and letting it install, though not autostart, is
“breaking watchdog” any worse than it already was.

That said, a better approach would probably be for update-rc.d.bbclass to
explicitly DEPENDS on initscripts, not VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_initscripts. The
latter isn’t guaranteed to provide initscripts-functions, it could be any
recipe that provides baseline startup scripts. Adding initscripts directly
would ensure that the initscripts-functions runtime dependency is satisfied
in all cases.
-- 
Christopher Larson
kergoth at gmail dot com
Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
Maintainer - Tslib
Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics
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