[yocto] Removing busybox

[Jean-Christian de Rivaz]

Le 27.02.19 à 22:40, Adrian Bunk a écrit :
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 03:09:02PM -0500, Tom Rini wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 09:06:38PM +0100, Jean-Christian de Rivaz wrote:
>> ...
>>> 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...
> "all the limited busybox commands would be replaced" would be a huge 
> list from dc through gawk, minicom and wget to vim.
>
> And would vim-tiny qualify as "the full featured command" of busybox vi,
> or should this include vim with full features?
>
> The nice thing about busybox is that it is so small,
> in many cases one full featured command alone
> is bigger than busybox.
>
> It is not obvious to me what usecases people have in mind for
> getting rid of busybox, and whether everyone is aware that
> something like "all busybox commands replaced" is *very*
> expensive regarding filesystem size.

The project I work for need nodejs and chromium (and a >100MB database
on some nodes), so space is not an issue. I need to deliver an useful
distribution with usual commands, tools and a working console + keyboard
for my locale. If  Poky is only maintained to be tested with sysvinit +
busybox and US locale, then I wonder if it's the appropriate choice for
that project. There nothing wrong in providing a sysvinit + busybox
based small distribution, this is simply not the best fit for that project.

Jean-Christian

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>> Tom
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> Adrian
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