From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from dan.rpsys.net (dan.rpsys.net [93.97.175.187]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A223C60819 for ; Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:28:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (dan.rpsys.net [127.0.0.1]) by dan.rpsys.net (8.14.4/8.14.4/Debian-2.1ubuntu1) with ESMTP id r5HAYRPD019898; Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:34:27 +0100 X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at dan.rpsys.net Received: from dan.rpsys.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (dan.rpsys.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id yRl2lFdyEpaC; Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:34:26 +0100 (BST) Received: from [192.168.3.10] (rpvlan0 [192.168.3.10]) (authenticated bits=0) by dan.rpsys.net (8.14.4/8.14.4/Debian-2.1ubuntu1) with ESMTP id r5HAYJ5c019891 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:34:20 +0100 Message-ID: <1371464893.20823.100.camel@ted> From: Richard Purdie To: Phil Blundell Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:28:13 +0100 In-Reply-To: <1371464233.6580.3.camel@phil-desktop.brightsign> References: <1371464233.6580.3.camel@phil-desktop.brightsign> X-Mailer: Evolution 3.6.4-0ubuntu1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: qingtao.cao@windriver.com, openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 9/9] tinylogin: remove recipe X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:28:30 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Mon, 2013-06-17 at 11:17 +0100, Phil Blundell wrote: > On Mon, 2013-06-17 at 13:49 +0800, Qi.Chen@windriver.com wrote: > > tinylogin has been deprecated and the functionality ported into busybox. > > We now use busybox as the login manager, so the tinylogin recipe could > > be deleted. > > I'm not entirely sure who "we" is in this context, but the choice of > login manager has, historically, been a distro decision. > > Reading between the lines I assume what you're actually saying here is > that Poky has decided to switch from tinylogin to busybox, which > obviously is fine. It's not entirely obvious to me that this is a very > compelling reason to remove tinylogin from oe-core, though equally I > guess there is no reason it couldn't live in some other layer instead. The trouble is that the tinylogin we're using is obsolete code and unmaintained/deprecated. Its starting to become a maintenance burden and cause some security concerns since nobody else is using it. The thinking is therefore we should therefore create a replacement for it from busybox. People are nervous about making busybox entirely SUID but having some small subset of it seems like a reasonable compromise. If someone wants to continue using tinylogin, there are obviously free to do so but it would no longer be part of OE-Core. Cheers, Richard