Re: gnupg strip down

["Wold, Saul" <saul.wold@intel.com>]

On Fri, 2017-04-28 at 11:35 +0300, Jussi Kukkonen wrote:
> On 28 April 2017 at 10:31, Arno Steffens <star@gmx.li> wrote:
> > I did as advised, created a bbappend for gnupg, like that:
> > 
> > do_install_append() {
> >         rm ${D}${bindir}/gpgv
> >         rm ${D}${bindir}/gpgsm
> >         rm ${D}${bindir}/gpg-connect-agent
> >         rm ${D}${bindir}/dirmngr-client
> >         rm ${D}${bindir}/gpgscm
> >         rm ${D}${bindir}/watchgnupg
> >         rm ${D}${bindir}/gpgparsemail
> >         rm ${D}${bindir}/gpgconf
> >         rm ${D}${bindir}/dirmngr
> >         rm ${D}${bindir}/gpgtar
> >         rm ${D}${bindir}/gpgv2
> >         rm ${D}${bindir}/gpg-agent
> >         rm ${D}${bindir}/kbxutil
> >         rm ${D}/usr/sbin/*
> >         rmdir ${D}/usr/sbin
> >         rm ${D}/usr/share/gnupg/help*
> >         rm ${D}/usr/libexec/gpg-*
> >         rm ${D}/usr/libexec/scdaemon
> >         rmdir ${D}/usr/libexec
> > }
> > 
> > First I get errors, cleaning files and leave directory, but than I
> > get it, that I have to remove empty folders too. Ok, that could be
> > done smarter. So just gpg and few small files left.
> > 
> > But I don't have an idea howto remove the libs, that seems to be
> > required only by the removed binaries,
> > like libgnutils.so, libgmp.so - which are rather big ... 
> 
> I don't see evidence that the binaries you mentioned would depend on
> those libraries (at least with current sysroot behaviour -- it might
> happen by mistake on older releases). But there is this line in the
> recipe:
> RDEPENDS_${PN} = "gnutls"
> 
> Saul, do you happen to remember why that was added (more than two
> years ago in poky 31059be9).
> 
Sorry no, too long ago, but looking at the patch it seems that the
dirmngr_LDADD had LIBGNUTLS before and after the change so possibly
that showed it should have been available.

If something has changed with dirmngr than maybe that can be removed.


>  - Jussi