[yocto] Removing busybox completely from the generated image

[Khem Raj]

On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 12:35 AM, Iván Castell
<icastell at nayarsystems.com> wrote:
> I have tried breaking apart packagegroup-core-boot, making a copy in my
> custom layer, removing the line referencing busybox:
>
>     ## VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_login_manager ?= "busybox"
>
> But now bitbake complains with an error message:
>
>     ERROR: Nothing RPROVIDES '${VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_login_manager}'
>
> It seems "VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_login_manager" needs to be defined with a valid
> option. I have tested with the option "tinylogin" but that options seems not
> implemented in "rocko" branch, because I'm getting this error:
>
>     ERROR: Nothing RPROVIDES 'tinylogin'
>
> Is there some valid alternative available? Where are these alternatives
> defined?
>

tinylogin has been removed few releases ago. So it wont work out of box.

> In general, is it posible to build yocto images without using busybox at
> all?
>



>
> 2018-02-16 16:56 GMT+01:00 Iván Castell <icastell at nayarsystems.com>:
>>
>> Hello forum!
>>
>> I'm trying to build a yocto image without busybox and without any busybox
>> applet deployed.
>>
>> I have tried that configuring my distro.conf file in this way:
>>
>>     DISTRO_FEATURES_remove = " busybox"
>>     VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_base-utils = ""
>>     PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/base-utils = ""
>>
>> Nonetheless, busybox binary and two related applets (syslog and udhcpc)
>> are installed in the generated image:
>>
>>     $ rpm -qa | grep busybox
>>     busybox-syslog-1.24.1-r0.corei7_64
>>     busybox-1.24.1-r0.corei7_64
>>     busybox-udhcpc-1.24.1-r0.corei7_64
>>
>> I have tried disabling syslog applet appending to my distro.conf file:
>>
>>     VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_syslog ?= ""
>>
>> But syslogd applet is still installed:
>>
>>     # ls -l /sbin/syslogd
>>     lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Feb 15 14:03 /sbin/syslogd ->
>> /bin/busybox.nosuid
>>
>> Is there some way to remove busybox completely from the generated image?
>>
>> Thank you in advance! :-)
>
>
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