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* [PATCH v2 0/4] Introduce packagegroup-core-base-utils
@ 2019-03-06 14:36 Tom Rini
  2019-03-06 14:36 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] vim: Import version 8.1.0347 Tom Rini
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From: Tom Rini @ 2019-03-06 14:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: openembedded-core

Over on the Yocto list[1] the topic of how to build an image without
busybox once again came up.  As part of that discussion I said I'd been
thinking about a packagegroup to make this easier to do as while
virtual/base-utils and VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_base-utils exist and work and allow
for this, the list of things we get from busybox is non-trivial.  In fact,
this exposed that in oe-core itself we have no editor aside from busybox
and are missing a number of common network utilities too.  To that end,
this series migrates vim and inetutils from meta-oe to oe-core, introduces
packagegroup-core-base-utils (and documents using it in
local.conf.sample.extended) and finally adds a testcase of building
(technically, making the dependency graph as that does what we need and is
much quicker, 5s vs 3 minute) core-image-sato with busybox disabled, so
that we can do our best to avoid introucing busybox as a hard requirement
in the future.

With respect to functionality, and since v2, this is basically 1:1 with
busybox.  I didn't add more "useful" utilities (which I would argue belong in
packagegroup-core-full-cmdline which follow up to this could be enhanced to
pull in this packagegroup and add to it).  In terms of deviation:
- On systemd, we use that for a trivial dhcp server.  On sysvinit we provide
  dhcp-server.
- We don't have fbset in oe-core, nor netcat-openbsd.  Both of these exist in
  meta-openembedded but I don't know if it's worth the overhead to move one or
  both of those to oe-core as well for this.

[1]: https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/yocto/2019-February/044317.html
-- 
Tom


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2019-03-06 14:36 [PATCH v2 0/4] Introduce packagegroup-core-base-utils Tom Rini
2019-03-06 14:36 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] vim: Import version 8.1.0347 Tom Rini
2019-03-06 14:36 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] inetutils: Import version 1.9.4 Tom Rini
2019-03-07 21:50   ` Richard Purdie
2019-03-08  4:20     ` Tom Rini
2019-03-08  4:31       ` Khem Raj
2019-03-08 12:12         ` Tom Rini
2019-03-08 21:46           ` Tom Rini
2019-03-06 14:36 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] packagegroup-core-base-utils: Introduce new base-utils packagegroup Tom Rini
2019-03-06 14:36 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] imagefeatures: Add test to blacklist building busybox Tom Rini

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