Re: [PATCH 0/3] Dynamic common utilities

[Jack Mitchell <ml@communistcode.co.uk>]

On 17/09/15 17:20, Alejandro Joya wrote:
> It provide a virtual reference for the common utilities.
> it replace of the lock to busybox, it will be simple exchange between other
> common utilities like gnu core utils or toybox among others.
>
> In order to enable its required to fill at the distro conf or local.conf
>
> VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_login_manager ?= "busybox"
> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/anybox ?= "busybox"
> PREFERRED_RPROVIDER_virtual/anybox ?= "busybox"
> VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_anybox ?= "busybox"
> VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_anybox-hwclock ?= "busybox-hwclock"
>
> The following changes since commit f0189829498e30231d826c9f55aad73e622d076e:
>
>    qemu: Update to upstream patches (2015-09-14 11:22:02 +0100)
>
> are available in the git repository at:
>
>    git://github.com/Ajoyacr/openembedded-core anybox
>    https://github.com/Ajoyacr/openembedded-core/tree/anybox
>
> Alejandro Joya (3):
>    core-mage-minimal-initramfs: overwrite hardcoded dependency to virtual
>      reference
>    initramfs-framework: overwrite hardcoded dependency to virtual
>      reference
>    packagegroup-core-boot: overwrite hardcoded dependency to virtual
>      reference
>
>   meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-minimal-initramfs.bb   | 2 +-
>   meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-framework_1.0.bb | 2 +-
>   meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-boot.bb  | 6 +++---
>   3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>

is 'anybox' a good name for the virtual provider? What happens if we have a new 
suite of core utility replacements without box in the name, I assume it will be 
a nightmare to retroactivly change the name so we should probably come up with a 
more generic one now. virtual/core-utils, virtual/base-utils?

Cheers,
Jack.