[yocto] Removing busybox

[Tom Rini]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 09:06:38PM +0100, Jean-Christian de Rivaz wrote:
> Thank you very much Tom for help. Here is my complete method:
> 
> git clone git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky -b thud
> cd poky
> cat << EOF > meta-poky/conf/distro/poky-ng.conf
> require conf/distro/poky.conf
> DISTRO = "poky-ng"
> 
> # Switch to systemd
> DISTRO_FEATURES += "systemd"
> VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_init_manager = "systemd"
> VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_initscripts = ""
> VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_syslog = ""
> VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_login_manager = "shadow-base"
> DISTRO_FEATURES_BACKFILL_CONSIDERED = "sysvinit"
> 
> # Replace busybox
> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/base-utils = "coreutils"
> VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_base-utils = "coreutils"
> VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_base-utils-hwclock = "util-linux-hwclock"
> VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_base-utils-syslog = ""
> EOF
> source oe-init-build-env
> sed -i 's/^DISTRO.*/DISTRO = "poky-ng"/' conf/local.conf
> bitbake core-image-minimal
> runqemu core-image-minimal kvm
> 
> So as expected systemd is there and busybox is not. But there is a lot of
> useful commands missing on the resulting QEMU image:
> 
> root at qemux86:~# ps
> ~sh: ps: command not found
> root at qemux86:~# w
> ~sh: w: command not found
> root at qemux86:~# find
> ~sh: find: command not found
> root at qemux86:~# grep
> ~sh: grep: command not found
> root at qemux86:~# ip addr
> ~sh: ip: command not found
> 
> I expected that all the limited busybox commands would be replaced by
> the full
> featured commands. How to fix that ?

Correct, you're missing a lot of stuff.  Somewhere on my (and other
folks too) TODO list is a packagegroup that includes procps and psmisc
and grep and tar and various network packages and less and more and...

-- 
Tom
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