Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] busybox: drop net-tools from defconfig

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Sun, 2025-01-26 at 12:51 +0100, Enrico Jörns via
lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> The 'net-tools' have been deprecated 15 years ago! [1]
> Let's remove their busybox pendants from the defconfig to prevent
> people
> from accidentally starting projects with ancient technology.
> 
> [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/03/msg00780.html
> 
> Signed-off-by: Enrico Jörns <ejo@pengutronix.de>
> ---
>  meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox/defconfig | 10 +++++-----
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

I did a quick grep of OE-Core and we still have a handful of sites
using this on target, particularly but not limited to our QA, the ones
that caught my eye:

meta/recipes-core/udev/udev-extraconf/network.sh:    	ifconfig | grep -q "^$INTERFACE" || ifup $INTERFACE
meta/recipes-core/images/build-appliance-image/README_VirtualBox_Toaster.txt:    $ ifconfig
meta/recipes-core/images/build-appliance-image/README_VirtualBox_Toaster.txt:    $ ifconfig
meta/recipes-core/busybox/files/simple.script:                                /SBIN_DIR/ifconfig $interface 0.0.0.0
meta/recipes-core/busybox/files/simple.script:                        /SBIN_DIR/ifconfig $interface $ip $BROADCAST $NETMASK
meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/devtool.py:            result = runCmd('PATH="$PATH:/sbin:/usr/sbin" ifconfig -a', ignore_status=True)
meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/devtool.py:                self.skipTest('Failed to determine if tap devices exist with ifconfig or ip: %s' % result.output)
meta/lib/oeqa/utils/qemurunner.py:                    cmd = "ifconfig eth0 %s netmask %s up\n" % (self.ip, self.netmask)
meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ethernet_ip_connman.py:        (status, output) = self.target.run("ifconfig eth0 | grep 'inet ' | awk '{print $2}'")
meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ethernet_ip_connman.py:        (status, output) = self.target.run("ifconfig eth0:1 %s netmask 255.255.255.0 && sleep 2 && ping -c 5 %s && ifconfig eth0:1 down" % (virtual_ip,virtual_ip))

but there are others too. We probably need to finish resolving these to
other commands before we can turn this off.

If you aren't able to help with that, we should at least have an open
bug to sort it out.

Cheers,

Richard