On Thu, 9 Jan 2020 at 14:47, Alexander Kanavin <alex.kanavin@gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> I had a closer look at how and where ifupdown recipe is used, and from
> what I see it isn't:
> every configuration is relying on busybox to provide the same utilities.
> That's why the failure is seen only in world builds :)
>
> Should we drop the ifupdown recipe?
>

A followup: there is a busybox-free set put together in
meta/recipes-extended/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-base-utils.bb
which includes ifupdown only if systemd is not in use.

However that packagegroup is not used in any images, and the only test for
it is in lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/imagefeatures.py
which does enable systemd, so that doesn't pull in ifupdown either.

This means ifupdown isn't runtime-tested now, and probably hasn't been
tested for a while.

Alex