[OE-core] [oe-core][PATCH 1/2] ifupdown: import recipe

[Bruce Ashfield]

On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 8:11 AM, Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-09-02 at 16:23 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Randy MacLeod
>> <randy.macleod at windriver.com> wrote:
>> > On 2015-09-02 11:55 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 6:34 PM, Joe Slater <jslater at windriver.com> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> Implements ifup and ifdown.
>> >>>
>> >>> Copied from https://github.com/WindRiver-OpenSourceLabs/meta-overc.git
>> >>> as of commit aa89eebffe06e4aa04701eae9691cb3049cbaef9.
>> >>>
>> >>> Signed-off-by: Joe Slater <jslater at windriver.com>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> I think this belongs to meta-networking. Also, what this one provides
>> >> which is not provided by the busybox one?
>> >
>> > We're trying to make busybox optional for larger systems
>> > that want to only use the full-featured/bloated packages.
>> > It's not a large tax to carry busybox in a 50+ MB image but
>> > it would be nice to not require it.
>>
>> I see; I still think this belongs to meta-networking as it will allow
>> this to be done however won't add new recipes in core.
>>
>> If many people start to use this, we can move this to core.
>
> To put this another way, I think it is probably reasonable that we
> should be able to build an image from OE-Core with basic functionality
> like networking without busybox?

That's what I'd support. If everything you need for the functionality with busy
box is in oe-core, to me, it doesn't make sense to go outside core to get that
same functionality without busybox.

Cheers,

Bruce

>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
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