[yocto] Removing busybox completely from the generated image

[Paul Eggleton]

On Monday, 19 February 2018 11:21:20 PM NZDT Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> On 02/19/2018 10:35 AM, Iván Castell 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}'
> 
> You need to remove the reference to VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_login_manager from 
> the list of packages to be installed, not the definition that points to 
> busybox. If the resulting image breaks, you get to keep the pieces. I'm 
> not sure what function busyybox performs here, but oe-core does not have 
> an alternative now - you are welcome to provide one.

I think the more full-featured alternative would be the "login" implementation 
provided by shadow, so you would set:

VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_login_manager = "shadow"

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre