[oe] dropbear
Paul Eggleton
paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com
Wed Apr 10 14:50:01 UTC 2013
On Wednesday 10 April 2013 15:47:09 Paul Eggleton wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 April 2013 16:37:33 Jaap de Jong wrote:
> > On 04/10/2013 04:04 PM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 10 April 2013 14:55:02 Jaap de Jong wrote:
> > >> dropbear 2013.56 is currently the most recent version.
> > >> Although not documented, they left out the functionality patched in
> > >> with
> > >> allow-nopw.patch in the 2013.56 release.
> > >
> > > How did you find this out?
> >
> > the patch fails and inspection of the code learns that it can't be
> > applied.
>
> Ah right - to explain what has happened, I developed a new patch to change
> dropbear so that the functionality is now controlled through a command-line
> switch, and that is now configured in the image using a script in
> /etc/default/; if you look at the dropbear recipe in master you can see how
> it works. This avoids the need to rebuild dropbear depending upon the value
> of IMAGE_FEATURES which was not really ideal.
>
> If you want to use the latest version of dropbear with an older branch I'd
> suggest just taking the dropbear recipe in master, removing the nopw-option
> patch (which has been applied).
If you do do this you'll also need to apply this patch:
http://cgit.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/commit/?id=0937054e6e3e02565f57e60a8bdc14b0ad62e249
Cheers,
Paul
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Paul Eggleton
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