[oe] dropbear

[Jaap de Jong]

On 04/10/2013 04:50 PM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> 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).
Seems that the nopw-option.patch is added to dropbear rev 2013.56, so 
that one should be remove also from the list of patches to apply.
> If you do do this you'll also need to apply this patch:
>
> http://cgit.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/commit/?id=0937054e6e3e02565f57e60a8bdc14b0ad62e249
Ok.
Thanks for your help!

> Cheers,
> Paul
>