[poky] RFC: add new init system alternative to poky

[Burton, Ross]

It looks a lot like this could be a separate layer, say meta-openrc.  That
way others can use/contribute but you won't be tied to oe-core policies.

Ross

On 4 February 2017 at 20:37, Niko Mauno <niko.mauno at iki.fi> wrote:

> To whom it may concern;
>
> attached patches (which work for me on top of Poky commit
> b76161a9a890481e8418a34b3250fc2debcb566f) serve by adding initial support
> for an alternative modern init system called OpenRC to Yocto-generated
> Linux OS distributions.
>
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/OpenRC
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Comparison_of_init_systems
>
> Motivation: Systemd may not suit everyone, but SysVinit is also very old
> and unmaintained. OpenRC provides modern init features, such as parallel
> service startup and automatic restarting of crashed services, while
> retaining an Unix-like approach of doing things.
>
> While relying on SysVinit's /sbin/init, the OpenRC documentation page
> claims that BusyBox-provided init program is also supported at least to
> some extent currently.
>
> While developing I've tested against the poky master branch's
> core-image-full-cmdline, which boots and halts for me seemingly without
> errors.
>
> With following openrc_%.bbappend:
>     do_install_append() {
> echo 'keymap="fi"' >> ${D}${sysconfdir}/conf.d/keymaps
> echo 'rc_logger="YES"' >> ${D}${sysconfdir}/rc.conf
>     }
> I got the console keymap working for me, and a boot log at
> /var/log/rc.log, like which Yocto's sysvinit has so far provided.
>
> The second patch which modifies openssh recipe, is a sample showing how to
> add openrc support to existing recipes. The OpenRC specific conf, init
> files are readily available from Gentoo project, so there shouldn't be any
> need to come up with those files from scratch. With the openssh patch, I'm
> able to login in to core-image-full-cmdline (executed via runqemu qemux86)
> via ssh right after the image OS has booted.
>
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