[yocto] toybox in OpenEmbedded

[Christopher Larson]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 6:44 AM, Paul Barker <paul at paulbarker.me.uk> wrote:

> I've been wanting to try out toybox within OpenEmbedded for quite a while
> and
> have finally found time to put a recipe together. Toybox is a BSD-licensed
> alternative to Busybox which may be of interest to a few people. It's
> still a
> work in progress but it already covers a large number of the basic
> commands a
> system needs. It should tie in well with the recent work Khem has done to
> enable
> the use of musl in OpenEmbedded as toybox and musl are often used together
> (e.g.
> Aboriginal Linux distro).
>
> My patches are currently against openembedded-core for convenience but this
> probably belongs in meta-oe for now. I've done some basic testing on
> qemuarm but
> nothing significant. toybox builds and installs correctly though and I've
> set
> ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = 60 so that it takes precedence over busybox tools.
>
> Removing toybox after it has been installed currently bricks the system
> though
> as the postrm script runs after '/bin/toybox' has been removed (so things
> like
> '/bin/ln' become broken links and the update-alternatives script can't
> run).
>

One option for that might be to try the C implementation of alternatives
that's provided in chkconfig, rather than cworth's shell version. I haven't
tested it in that context, but I doubt it runs so many external tools.
-- 
Christopher Larson
clarson at kergoth dot com
Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
Maintainer - Tslib
Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics
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