Re: [docs] [OE-core] [PATCH] init-manager-none.inc: have no init manager

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

On Tue, 2023-05-02 at 16:14 +0200, Alexandre Belloni via
lists.yoctoproject.org wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> This causes the following error:
> 
> https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/typhoon/#/builders/47/builds/7035/steps/12/logs/stdio
> 
> This is the expected behaviour of the patch but doesn't fit with what
> this particular build (qemuarm-oecore) is testing as we can't run
> testimage without an init. I'm wondering what should be the proper
> course of action here.
> 

INIT_MANAGER didn't used to be a variable and therefore could in theory
be unset. The "none" configuration was designed to cause the system to
fall back to the original behaviour. OE-Core's "nodistro" uses the
fallback.

We could decide just to require this variable to be set to something
but this could potentially conflict with people setting up their init
system "manually" within their own distro.

It is a bit tricky to know what to do in situations like these.
INIT_MANAGER was added to try and help people avoid needing to repeat
certain config fragments.

Cheers,

Richard