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@ 2019-03-01 22:26 Tom Rini
  2019-03-01 22:26 ` [PATCH 1/4] vim: Import version 8.1.0347 Tom Rini
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From: Tom Rini @ 2019-03-01 22:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: openembedded-core

Hey all,

Over on the Yocto list[1] the topic of how to build an image without
busybox once again came up.  As part of that discussion I said I'd been
thinking about a packagegroup to make this easier to do as while
virtual/base-utils and VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_base-utils exist and work and allow
for this, the list of things we get from busybox is non-trivial.  In fact,
this exposed that in oe-core itself we have no editor aside from busybox
and are missing a number of common network utilities too.  To that end,
this series migrates vim and inetutils from meta-oe to oe-core, introduces
packagegroup-core-base-utils (and documents using it in
local.conf.sample.extended) and finally adds a testcase of building
(technically, making the dependency graph as that does what we need and is
much quicker, 5s vs 3 minute) core-image-sato with busybox disabled, so
that we can do our best to avoid introucing busybox as a hard requirement
in the future.

With respect to functionality, this is basically 1:1 with busybox.  I
didn't add more "useful" utilities (which I would argue belong in
packagegroup-core-full-cmdline which follow up to this could be enhanced to
pull in this packagegroup and add to it).  In terms of deviation:
- We do not have a trivial dhcp server, unless you use systemd.
- We may have also lost a few similar trivial servers.  One may argue that
  by default maybe busybox shouldn't be opening this stuff up.
- busybox provides "nslookup" which at this point in time is an
  anachronism. bind stopped shipping "nslookup" prior to oe-core replacing
  the old monolithic layer.  We do provide host and dig and such via
  bind-utils.

[1]: https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/yocto/2019-February/044317.html
-- 
Tom



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2019-03-01 22:26 [PATCH 0/4] Introduce packagegroup-core-base-utils Tom Rini
2019-03-01 22:26 ` [PATCH 1/4] vim: Import version 8.1.0347 Tom Rini
2019-03-02  9:15   ` Martin Jansa
2019-03-02 12:36     ` Tom Rini
2019-03-02 12:57       ` Tom Rini
2019-03-02 15:42   ` Joshua Watt
2019-03-01 22:26 ` [PATCH 2/4] inetutils: Import version 1.9.4 Tom Rini
2019-03-02 17:00   ` Richard Purdie
2019-03-02 17:46     ` Tom Rini
2019-03-02 19:25       ` Richard Purdie
2019-03-02 19:28         ` Tom Rini
2019-03-04  9:47   ` André Draszik
2019-03-04 16:40     ` Tom Rini
2019-03-01 22:26 ` [PATCH 3/4] packagegroup-core-base-utils: Introduce new base-utils packagegroup Tom Rini
2019-03-02 14:41   ` Tom Rini
2019-03-04 16:44   ` Mark Hatle
2019-03-04 18:02     ` Tom Rini
2019-03-01 22:26 ` [PATCH 4/4] imagefeatures: Add test to blacklist building busybox Tom Rini
2019-03-02  7:11 ` [PATCH 0/4] Introduce packagegroup-core-base-utils Adrian Bunk
2019-03-02 12:36   ` Tom Rini

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