[yocto] remove /boot/uImage and /usr/share/terminfo

[Hans Beckérus]

On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Bruce Ashfield <
bruce.ashfield at windriver.com> wrote:

> On 13-03-15 06:33 AM, Hans Beckérus wrote:
>
>> Hi. In an effort to shrink our rootfs by some major numbers we found two
>> low-hanging fruits that we would like to address before cherry picking
>> and removing lots of good linux functionality. We have no need for the
>> uImage (3MB) stored in /boot and also we can leave out the terminfo tree
>> (2.5MB).
>> My question here now is if the build system provide functionality to
>> actually tell the image builder not to include these specific components?
>>
>
> From kernel.bbclass, you just need to clear RDEPENDS_kernel-base
> in your .conf files:
>
> # Allow machines to override this dependency if kernel image files are
> # not wanted in images as standard
> RDEPENDS_kernel-base ?= "kernel-image"
>
> You'll still get your kernel modules installed after making this change.
>
> Bruce
>

Thanks Bruce.How could I have missed that? I believe I scanned through the
kernel.bbclass for something like this.
Also got some good tip regarding /usr/share/terminfo? Guess I need to
figure out what package drags it in ;)

Hans
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