[yocto] Dumping sysvinit

[Mike Looijmans]

On 21-09-15 12:48, Andy Pont wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
>>> Back to plan A then, trying to figure out how to get Busybox init and
>> mdev as the defaults in the image.
>>
>> Create your own distro, here's an example that uses mdev:
>>
>> https://github.com/topic-embedded-products/meta-
>> topic/blob/master/conf/distro/tiny.conf
>
> Thanks for pointing me in the direction of this.  I have cloned it and used
> it as the basis of my distro, tweaked it a bit and it is starting to behave
> how I want.  There are a few anomalies that I haven't managed to figure out
> yet...
>
> Despite having VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_initscripts = "" the root file system still
> contains /etc/rcX.d directories
>
> On other embedded Linux projects that boot using Busybox init the
> /etc/init.d directory contained the individual service start and kill files
> e.g. S50-dropbear and K50-dropbear but I can't see how to make Yocto
> populate this directory in that form.
>
> Thoughts and guidance from anyone would be much appreciated!

I didn't go as far as attempting to get rid of initscripts as well. I just 
patched the initscripts to remove the things I did not want in a 
do_install_append.

Many recipes will create /etc/rcX.d entries to start/stop things.



Kind regards,

Mike Looijmans
System Expert

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