[yocto] Yocto 1.5: busybox instead of tinylogin, need some help

[Hans Beckérus]

On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Hans Beckérus <hans.beckerus at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello. I am currently working on moving from Yocto 1.4 to 1.5 and
> instantly stumbled into a few minor problems (this being one of them).
> In 1.5 tinylogin is replaced by busybox. What we had before in our
> distro conf (it require poky.conf) was:
>
> # Use tmpdevfs and the busybox runtime services
> VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_dev_manager = ""
> VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_login_manager = "tinylogin"
> #VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_init_manager = ""
> VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_keymaps = ""
>
> Obviously this does no longer work. Is it as easy as simply commenting
> out VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_login_manager and leave it at the default from
> packagegroup-core-boot?
> Will our old init-manager also be compatible? I believe we used
> tiny-init before?
> Another thing, since this will require a new set of busybox options to
> be enabled, and we need to modify it slightly, is there some concept
> similar to configuration fragments also available for busybox? Was
> thinking about how clumsy it is right now since our .bbappend for
> busybox basically copied the config from the poky base meta. Using
> configuration fragments would make it easier for us to migrate in the
> future.
>
Ignore the last question. I just found the .cfg file residing in the
busybox recipe folder. From that I can tell that configuration
fragments are supported also for busybox :)

> Thanks.
> Hans