Re: [meta-oe PATCH] busybox: Follow OE-Core update to 1.12.1 version

[Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>]

On Tuesday 23 July 2013 09:46:36 Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Paul Eggleton
> 
> <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 23 July 2013 09:09:37 Otavio Salvador wrote:
> >> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 6:44 AM, Paul Eggleton
> >> 
> >> <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> >> > On Monday 08 July 2013 13:35:21 Paul Eggleton wrote:
> >> >> On Friday 05 July 2013 19:45:25 Eric Bénard wrote:
> >> >> > Le Fri, 05 Jul 2013 18:29:04 +0100,
> >> >> > 
> >> >> > Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com> a écrit :
> >> >> > > Could someone *please* figure out what this bbappend is needed for
> >> >> > > and
> >> >> > > get
> >> >> > > it into OE-Core if it is still needed so we can drop it here?
> >> >> > 
> >> >> > it's only here to install /etc/default/busybox-syslog which contains
> >> >> > only one line : OPTIONS="-C64" which sets the size of the logbuffer.
> >> >> > So obviously this could go into OE-Core.
> >> >> 
> >> >> Yes but why is this needed? If we are to merge this into OE-Core we'll
> >> >> need
> >> >> to say why this change is needed in the commit message.
> >> > 
> >> > ping...
> >> 
> >> I am working in something else so I cannot work on busybox now. Feel
> >> free to handle this.
> >> 
> >> The syslog support would be good to be kept.
> > 
> > The problem is it's not clear to me what we should do here. Surely having
> > this bbappend or not isn't the determining factor in whether we have
> > syslog support with systemd...?
> 
> With systemd we shouldn't provide it but for sysv we should provide it.

I still need to know what this is needed for. Surely it doesn't actually 
enable syslog functionality, just adds one configuration value to it? If that's 
the case, why is this configuration change needed?

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre