coreutils over uutils-coreutils when selinux in DISTRO_FEATURES

coreutils over uutils-coreutils when selinux in DISTRO_FEATURES

[Vincent Davis Jr]

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Hello all,

Currently using coreutils over busybox and systemd over sysvinit via:

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> SKIP_RECIPE[busybox] = "Don't build this"
> DISTRO_FEATURES_BACKFILL_CONSIDERED:append = " sysvinit"
> VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_syslog = ""
> VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_initscripts = ""
> VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_init_manager = "systemd"
> VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_dev_manager = "udev"
> VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_login_manager = "shadow-base"
> VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_base-utils = "packagegroup-core-base-utils"
> VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_base-utils-hwclock = "util-linux-hwclock"
> VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_base-utils-syslog = ""
> VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_vim = "vim"
> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_udev = "systemd"
> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_udev-utils = "systemd"
> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/base-utils = "packagegroup-core-base-utils"
> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_coreutils = "coreutils"
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Need help determining how to use coreutils over uutils-coreutils?
uutils-coreutils only gets built when I include "selinux" in *DISTRO_FEATURES.
* Thus it leads me to

ERROR: Nothing PROVIDES 'clang-native'
ERROR: Nothing RPROVIDES 'uutils-coreutils'

Of course happens because I'm not including meta-clang.

I've bypassed error by including:

SKIP_RECIPE[uutils-coreutils] = "Don't build this"
BBMASK += "/meta-oe/recipes-core/uutils-coreutils"

Which builds, but doesn't include required tools into target system image
sed,which.

I have tried removing SKIP_RECIPE,BBMASK and set

PREFERRED_PROVIDER_coreutils = "coreutils"

Still wants to build uutils-coreutils over coreutils.

I would like to not include meta-clang and of course not use uutils-coreutils over coreutils.

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Re: coreutils over uutils-coreutils when selinux in DISTRO_FEATURES

[Vincent Davis Jr]

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Hello for future readers,

Issue with target system not containing coreutils was fixed via

SKIP_RECIPE[uutils-coreutils] = "Don't build this"

IMAGE_INSTALL:append = " packagegroup-selinux-minimal"

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Re: coreutils over uutils-coreutils when selinux in DISTRO_FEATURES

[Clayton Casciato]

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Thanks for posting this, Vincent!

I solved this in a uutils-coreutils-%.bbappend:
PROVIDES:remove = "coreutils"
RPROVIDES:${PN}:remove = "coreutils"

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Re: coreutils over uutils-coreutils when selinux in DISTRO_FEATURES

[Vincent Davis Jr]

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Hey Clayton, Thanks for post append! Forgot I wanted to append more info to post.
I added bellow into distro config

# Replaces busybox,uutils-coreutils with coreutils
SKIP_RECIPE[uutils-coreutils] = "Don't build this"
SKIP_RECIPE[busybox] = "Don't build this"
VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_syslog = ""
VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_login_manager = "shadow-base"
VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_base-utils = "packagegroup-core-base-utils"
VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_base-utils-hwclock = "util-linux-hwclock"
VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_base-utils-syslog = ""
VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_vim = "vim"
PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/base-utils = "packagegroup-core-base-utils"
PREFERRED_PROVIDER_coreutils = "coreutils"
PREFERRED_PROVIDER_uutils-coreutils = "coreutils"
RDEPENDS:packagegroup-core-base-utils:remove = " parted"

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Re: [oe] coreutils over uutils-coreutils when selinux in DISTRO_FEATURES

[Clayton Casciato]

Vincent-
I changed my workaround to BBMASK
"meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-core/uutils-coreutils/".

Raj/all-

This is an issue at parse time:
uutils-coreutils has a conditional dependency ("selinux") on
"clang-native" [1], which is provided by meta-clang [2] 

This issue could likely be resolved via BBFILES_DYNAMIC[3].

[1] https://git.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded/tree/meta-oe/recipes-core/uutils-coreutils/uutils-coreutils_0.0.28.bb?h=scarthgap&id=cc425a989b68fc9b52ab37d5178d13d21ee92f39#n32
[2] https://github.com/kraj/meta-clang/blob/b9ef02282197380ef05edbd0eb852e1934ceb59b/recipes-devtools/clang/clang_git.bb#L306
[3] https://docs.yoctoproject.org/scarthgap/ref-manual/variables.html#term-BBFILES_DYNAMIC

Clayton Casciato

Re: [oe] coreutils over uutils-coreutils when selinux in DISTRO_FEATURES

[Khem Raj]

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On Wed, Mar 25, 2026 at 4:30 PM Clayton Casciato <
majortomtosourcecontrol@gmail.com> wrote:

> Vincent-
> I changed my workaround to BBMASK
> "meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-core/uutils-coreutils/".
>
> Raj/all-
>
> This is an issue at parse time:
> uutils-coreutils has a conditional dependency ("selinux") on
> "clang-native" [1], which is provided by meta-clang [2]
>
> This issue could likely be resolved via BBFILES_DYNAMIC[3].
>

I think we can also disable selinux packageconfig by default. I think if
you do not need selinux then I Would suggest to toggle this packageconfig


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> [1]
> https://git.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded/tree/meta-oe/recipes-core/uutils-coreutils/uutils-coreutils_0.0.28.bb?h=scarthgap&id=cc425a989b68fc9b52ab37d5178d13d21ee92f39#n32
> [2]
> https://github.com/kraj/meta-clang/blob/b9ef02282197380ef05edbd0eb852e1934ceb59b/recipes-devtools/clang/clang_git.bb#L306
> [3]
> https://docs.yoctoproject.org/scarthgap/ref-manual/variables.html#term-BBFILES_DYNAMIC
>
> Clayton Casciato
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