From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix, from userid 118) id D05DDE00993; Fri, 10 Apr 2015 08:10:30 -0700 (PDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on yocto-www.yoctoproject.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,HTML_MESSAGE,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-HAM-Report: * 0.0 FREEMAIL_FROM Sender email is commonly abused enduser mail provider * (twoerner[at]gmail.com) * -0.7 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, low * trust * [209.85.213.172 listed in list.dnswl.org] * -1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] * 0.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message * -0.1 DKIM_VALID_AU Message has a valid DKIM or DK signature from author's * domain * 0.1 DKIM_SIGNED Message has a DKIM or DK signature, not necessarily * valid * -0.1 DKIM_VALID Message has at least one valid DKIM or DK signature Received: from mail-ig0-f172.google.com (mail-ig0-f172.google.com [209.85.213.172]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BF0BE00932 for ; Fri, 10 Apr 2015 08:10:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by iggg4 with SMTP id g4so245609igg.0 for ; Fri, 10 Apr 2015 08:10:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type; bh=zizda4YISAGLTtEbjp7JIi8yVOsXBs2Vrg+5Bl+s6rE=; b=lF8mMra4VDUeiekZwz0wmJK0vbXGLVkpIko1gJ2kul5wDGtz2FR7NmeBgoioRJItKm 4GAJJULCe1D/HmNdEV508NlTUQVOjSrWgxhOeyZlrV7QfniaBWUhPicaJkDO/MOFD7ey QrLKsWkcdzQHADgjEzBPaIa68fOV22JvXT7WZZQCDtlfEn5j+RGSvLEqYdMj3K8m7o1p 2olGFtIvIebYXVMAnborYFpAWKhURP5LtmwjG975cPwKJQOUouwNcvDhAB32gZL+ZjXx 1qOkwetKuRY7Dfi6IMWxMicjLdgUAz5Zm0iH80K6hNgxOgjihnY6m7NIDBSamNMsP1hQ S88Q== X-Received: by 10.42.23.17 with SMTP id q17mr4303927icb.4.1428678627846; Fri, 10 Apr 2015 08:10:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.34.210] (static-66-11-92-234.ptr.terago.net. [66.11.92.234]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id b17sm1298674iob.31.2015.04.10.08.10.27 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 10 Apr 2015 08:10:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5527E7E2.7030605@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 11:10:26 -0400 From: Trevor Woerner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dilip Basavaraju , "yocto@yoctoproject.org" References: In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: Package reduction(package minimisation) for minimal rootfs X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto Project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 15:10:30 -0000 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------010300040700030403080803" --------------010300040700030403080803 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 15-04-10 03:04 AM, Dilip Basavaraju wrote: > I have task to minimize the root file system, by > removing busy box and adding additional packages in place of busybox > like core-utils, binutils, tiny-login etc. The following quotes are taken from http://busybox.net/about.html: "BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable. It provides replacements for most of the utilities you usually find in GNU fileutils, shellutils, etc." "BusyBox has been written with size-optimization and limited resources in mind." In general, if you are trying to make a small system you would remote things like core-utils and replace them with busybox, not the other way around. Maybe having a look at poky-tiny might help? --------------010300040700030403080803 Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On 15-04-10 03:04 AM, Dilip Basavaraju wrote:
                I have task to minimize the root file system, by removing busy box and adding additional packages in place of busybox like core-utils, binutils, tiny-login etc.

The following quotes are taken from http://busybox.net/about.html:

"BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable. It provides replacements for most of the utilities you usually find in GNU fileutils, shellutils, etc."

"BusyBox has been written with size-optimization and limited resources in mind."

In general, if you are trying to make a small system you would remote things like core-utils and replace them with busybox, not the other way around.

Maybe having a look at poky-tiny might help?
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