Re: [OE-core] Ubuntu 25.10: base-passwd fails to chown. (pseudo issue)

[Gijs Peskens <gijs.peskens@munisense.com>]

On 10/22/25 13:11, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> Thanks for the report. I was dreading the day this happens, and I'm
> sure others as well. Chances are, other distros will follow, and then
> Yocto project has a problem.
>
> Should we build C based native coreutils as early as possible, and
> then use only that? That might buy some time, but isn't a real
> solution, if GNU stops their development.
I'd guess that's the lowest energy approach, other routes would 
potentially involve writing the utils themselves with pseudo in mind and 
calling back into host utilities where needed. I don't believe GNU would 
stop development on coreutils anywhere in the near(ish) future, nor that 
the approach of building native coreutils would break since it should 
more or less only depend on the libC and kernel, things which aren't 
going away anytime soon.

Perhaps some magic right now inside bitbake that checks whether the 
host-utils are uutils and fails early would be nice (again: I'm aware 
I'm in unsupported land, energy shouldn't be wasted too much).

Gijs