[yocto] Removing busybox completely from the generated image

[Iván Castell]

2018-02-20 7:45 GMT+01:00 Martin Hundebøll <mnhu at prevas.dk>:

> Hi Ivan,
>
>>
>> Thank you for the information, I will take into account that tool for
>> future embedded projects. However, the focus of this issue was to remove
>> completely busybox from the image, not replacing it by another application
>> box.
>>
>> I have created a bbappend with a fragment of the busybox configuration
>> disabling syslog and udhcpc applets. It works. However the busybox binary
>> and a lot of applets are still there (adduser, unzip, fbset, traceroute,
>> and more).
>>
>> Disabling all different applets and installing native tools instead could
>> be the right way to procede. Not a nice solution, but at least it should
>> work...
>>
>
> Here's what we have in our distro config to disable busybox:
>
> > # Disable busybox
> > VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_base-utils = ""
> > ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY_pn-busybox = "1"
>
> The priority setting make bitbake pull in alternatives from util-linux /
> coreutils when appropriate.
>
> // Martin
>


Yes!! That was the trick. It works like a charm!! Thank you so much Mr.
Martin!! :-)
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