[oe] Is there a recipe for building and using busybox with libbusybox out there ?

[Koen Kooi]

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On 07-07-10 12:26, Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 11:45 +0200, Hauser, Wolfgang (external) wrote:
>> I want to use busybox with the applet binaries linked against libbusybox
>> in our system.
>> We need a wide range of applets at the same time, so I suppose it will
>> save overall needed memory space.
> 
> What's the advantage of this?  I would have thought it would give you a
> larger memory footprint rather than a smaller one.  I guess I must be
> missing something.
> 
>> Also I want to prevent the system from updating alternatives while the
>> first boot. We have to provide a read only root file system.
> 
> Yeah, this is a long-standing piece of OE suckage.  We should fix the
> alternative selection to work at image construction time.

OE already does that. But what it does after that is flag everything as
'unpacked' to have opkg rerun all postinsts at boot *again*. If OE
didn't run u-a at image time we wouldn't be able to use sysvinit for
example.
If you only care about u-a, just add a post process command to remove
the S98configure from the rootfs and opkg won't run.

In the long run a way to control this behaviour and optionally hook into
qemu or even targets over network to run them at image time. Having to
run a first boot, remove ssl keys and repackage everything is getting a
bit tedious.

regards,

Koen
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