[OE-core] [PATCH v2 0/4] Introduce packagegroup-core-base-utils
Tom Rini
trini at konsulko.com
Wed Mar 6 14:36:09 UTC 2019
Over on the Yocto list[1] the topic of how to build an image without
busybox once again came up. As part of that discussion I said I'd been
thinking about a packagegroup to make this easier to do as while
virtual/base-utils and VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_base-utils exist and work and allow
for this, the list of things we get from busybox is non-trivial. In fact,
this exposed that in oe-core itself we have no editor aside from busybox
and are missing a number of common network utilities too. To that end,
this series migrates vim and inetutils from meta-oe to oe-core, introduces
packagegroup-core-base-utils (and documents using it in
local.conf.sample.extended) and finally adds a testcase of building
(technically, making the dependency graph as that does what we need and is
much quicker, 5s vs 3 minute) core-image-sato with busybox disabled, so
that we can do our best to avoid introucing busybox as a hard requirement
in the future.
With respect to functionality, and since v2, this is basically 1:1 with
busybox. I didn't add more "useful" utilities (which I would argue belong in
packagegroup-core-full-cmdline which follow up to this could be enhanced to
pull in this packagegroup and add to it). In terms of deviation:
- On systemd, we use that for a trivial dhcp server. On sysvinit we provide
dhcp-server.
- We don't have fbset in oe-core, nor netcat-openbsd. Both of these exist in
meta-openembedded but I don't know if it's worth the overhead to move one or
both of those to oe-core as well for this.
[1]: https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/yocto/2019-February/044317.html
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Tom
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