[OE-core] [PATCH 3/4] packagegroup-core-base-utils: Introduce new base-utils packagegroup

[Mark Hatle]

On 3/1/19 4:26 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> This packagegroup is intended to provide all of the functionality found
> in other VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_base-utils providers through full packages
> rather than an all-on-one package.  Document how to make use of this
> in local.conf.sample.extended.  Introduce VIRTUAL-RUNTIME-vim and
> default this to vim-tiny to allow for a differently features vim to be
> used instead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>
> ---
>  meta/conf/local.conf.sample.extended               |  8 ++++
>  .../packagegroups/packagegroup-core-base-utils.bb  | 49 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 57 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 meta/recipes-extended/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-base-utils.bb
> 
> diff --git a/meta/conf/local.conf.sample.extended b/meta/conf/local.conf.sample.extended
> index 8062e4c5721b..d00221893ad9 100644
> --- a/meta/conf/local.conf.sample.extended
> +++ b/meta/conf/local.conf.sample.extended
> @@ -384,3 +384,11 @@
>  #VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_login_manager = "shadow-base"
>  #VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_init_manager = "systemd"
>  #VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_initscripts = "systemd-compat-units"
> +
> +#
> +# Use a full set of packages instead of busybox for base utils
> +#
> +#PREFERRED_PROVIDER_base-utils = "packagegroup-core-base-utils"
> +#VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_base-utils = "packagegroup-core-base-utils"
> +#VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_base-utils-hwclock = "util-linux-hwclock"
> +#VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_base-utils-syslog = "syslog"
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-base-utils.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-base-utils.bb
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..061dade0bc03
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/meta/recipes-extended/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-base-utils.bb
> @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
> +#
> +# Copyright (C) 2019 Konsulko Group
> +#
> +
> +SUMMARY = "Full-featured set of base utils"
> +DESCRIPTION = "Package group bringing in packages needed to provide much of the base utils type functionality found in busybox"
> +
> +inherit packagegroup
> +
> +VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_vim ?= "vim-tiny"
> +
> +RDEPENDS_${PN} = "\
> +    base-passwd \
> +    bash \
> +    bind-utils \
> +    bzip2 \
> +    coreutils \
> +    cpio \
> +    dhcp-client \
> +    diffutils \
> +    e2fsprogs \
> +    ed \
> +    file \
> +    findutils \
> +    gawk \
> +    grep \
> +    gzip \
> +    inetutils \
> +    iproute2 \
> +    kmod \
> +    less \
> +    lzip \
> +    ncurses-tools \
> +    net-tools \
> +    parted \
> +    patch \
> +    procps \
> +    psmisc \
> +    sed \
> +    shadow-base \
> +    tar \
> +    time \
> +    unzip \
> +    util-linux \
> +    ${VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_vim} \
> +    wget \
> +    which \
> +    xz \
> +    "
> 

Sorry missed this earlier.  On note, we have a similar recipe in our local layer.

I figured you may want to look at it to determine if anything might be missing.

https://github.com/WindRiver-OpenSourceLabs/wrlinux/blob/master-wr/recipes-base/packagegroups/packagegroup-busybox-replacement.bb

The parts I see missing (when comparing them) are:

bc
debianutils-run-parts
dhcp-server (likely not needed)
dpkg-start-stop
ifupdown
kbd

In some configurations we also add "fbset, netcat, and usleep" as well... but I
think the reasonable approach is to match the default busybox configuration to
whatever is in this list.

--Mark