[oe] [meta-oe] inconsistency between autotests and ssh support

[Amit Chaudhuri]

Hi Paul,

thanks for the pointer.

If I stumble across the doc reference I'll shout.

Amit

On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 1:39 PM, Paul Eggleton
<paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> Hi Amit,
>
> On Tuesday 18 August 2015 09:34:44 Amit Chaudhuri wrote:
>> I am experimenting with tools-profile and qemux86 and qemuarm. Autotest
>> failures make me think there is an inconsistency in the recipes and
>> possibly also somewhere in the docs.
>>
>> I was under the impression (from docs?) that core-image-base would add ssh
>> support so I switched from core-image-minimal. Whether I was looking in the
>> wrong version of docs or not, the failure of the autotests makes me think
>> there is a problem. Examining the ssh log listed in the test output I can
>> see multiple "connection refused on port 22" messages" and there is clearly
>> no ssh server in the image. The test output shows that some tests are
>> indeed skipped because the system knows ssh is not present. But multiple
>> other tests are not skipped.
>>
>> Same experience on both qemuarm and qemux86.
>>
>> After greping to find ssh-server in a .bb file I switched again to
>> core-image-full-cmdline and am now able to ssh in. I still get an error
>> relating to something else, but ssh works fine.
>>
>> With fido version:
>>
>> meta              = "fido:6546771a502a09c63e33679be8784818be0ef93b"
>>
>> The main changes I have made are to local.conf where I have:
>>
>> MACHINE ??= "qemuarm"
>> ....
>> EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES = "dbg-pkgs tools-profile tools-debug debug-tweaks"
>
> Since you're already setting EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES, just add
> "ssh-server-dropbear" or "ssh-server-openssh" to its value and you'll have SSH
> server support no matter which image you build.
>
> I'm not sure where we'd have documented that core-image-base has an SSH server
> - at least I can't find such a reference.
>
> Cheers,
> Paul
>
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>
> Paul Eggleton
> Intel Open Source Technology Centre