[OE-core] [PATCH v3 1/2] local.conf.sample: make systemd as default init manager

[Khem Raj]

On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 12:23 PM Peter Kjellerstedt
<peter.kjellerstedt at axis.com> wrote:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com>
> > Sent: den 23 maj 2019 22:59
> > To: Peter Kjellerstedt <peter.kjellerstedt at axis.com>
> > Cc: kai.kang at windriver.com; openembedded-core at lists.openembedded.org; richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org
> > Subject: Re: [OE-core] [PATCH v3 1/2] local.conf.sample: make systemd as default init manager
> >
> > On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 1:41 PM Peter Kjellerstedt <mailto:peter.kjellerstedt at axis.com> wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: mailto:openembedded-core-bounces at lists.openembedded.org <openembedded-
> > > mailto:core-bounces at lists.openembedded.org> On Behalf Of
> > > mailto:kai.kang at windriver.com
> > > Sent: den 23 maj 2019 10:26
> > > To: mailto:richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org
> > > Cc: mailto:openembedded-core at lists.openembedded.org
> > > Subject: [OE-core] [PATCH v3 1/2] local.conf.sample: make systemd as
> > > default init manager
> > >
> > > From: Kai Kang <mailto:kai.kang at windriver.com>
> > >
> > > Move configurations from local.conf.sample.extended to local.conf.sample
> > > to make systemd as default init manager for poky.
> >
> > If we're going to change the default init manager to be systemd, wouldn't
> > it be more appropriate to change the real default values in bitbake.conf
> > and http://packagegroup-core-boot.bb? And then include an example in
> > local.conf.sample.extended to show how to configure sysvinit as init
> > manager?
> >
> > That would change it for Oe-core and other distributions as well which
> > is not the intention
>
> Ok, then I'd say the change belongs in poky.conf. Doing this kind of changes
> in local.conf.sample seems very wrong to me. Why? Because if I have an
> existing build tree it will not be affected, but if I setup a new tree with
> oe-init-build-env it will all of a sudden behave differently from the old
> tree. In my mind, local.conf.sample should only be used for things the user
> are likely to want to configure to adapt the build for his/her environment,
> not to define the distribution (that's what poky.conf is for).

yes distro config is right place.

>
> //Peter
>