[yocto] Removing busybox

Burton, Ross ross.burton at intel.com
Wed Feb 27 15:02:06 PST 2019


On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 at 22:25, Jean-Christian de Rivaz
<jean-christian.derivaz at innodelec.ch> wrote:
> 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.

Installing the commands is pretty simple: be sure to install all of
util-linux core-utils psutils etc.  Yes, this should be a packagegroup
to make it trivial, but this is practically a few minutes work.

Ross


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