[yocto] Removing busybox

Burton, Ross ross.burton at intel.com
Wed Feb 27 15:59:42 PST 2019


On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 at 23:55, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
> My current incomplete list is:
>     bind-utils \
>     bridge-utils \
>     coreutils \
>     dnsmasq \
>     e2fsprogs \
>     e2fsprogs-resize2fs \
>     e2fsprogs-tune2fs \
>     findutils \
>     gawk \
>     grep \
>     inetutils-ping \
>     inetutils-ping6 \
>     inetutils-traceroute \
>     iproute2 \
>     less \
>     net-tools \
>     parted \
>     pciutils \
>     procps \
>     sed \
>     util-linux \
>     vim \
>     which \
>
> And it's also incomplete as there's more stuff under inetutils I don't
> need (but others may), and I set aside patch/diff/ed and some other
> stuff I don't need.  And since some of that stuff comes from
> meta-openembedded, it's indeed really not clear how/where a packagegroup
> would reside as we need things out of meta-networking.

That's a good start.  For a oe-core packagegroup I'd suggest dropping
dnsmasq bridgeutils bindutils to keep it lean. Does that remove
everything from meta-networking?  Also swap vim for something in core
obviously.

Ross

Ross


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