[OE-core] How do I get rid of systemd

[Khem Raj]

On (18/01/12 09:34), Philip Balister wrote:
> On 01/18/2012 09:21 AM, Koen Kooi wrote:
> > 
> > Op 18 jan. 2012, om 14:43 heeft Sergey 'Jin' Bostandzhyan het volgende geschreven:
> > 
> >> Hi Rainer,
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 02:16:12PM +0100, Rainer Koenig wrote:
> >>> built my first basic customized console image (based on angstrom's
> >>> console-image.bb) and managed to get SystemV init pulled in by deleting
> >>> the systemd entry for the init manager.
> >>>
> >>> But systemd is still pulled in via connman, dhcp, rsyslog and ntp. How
> >>> can I get totally rid of systemd so that I don't need a kernel with CGROUPS?
> >>
> >> I also did not want systemd in my image, I had to create a layer and patch
> >> out systemd from each package that was pulling it in, one by one.
> >>
> >> Surely not the nicest solution, but I did not find any other ways to solve this.
> > 
> > It's really easy, create your own image, no patching needed. The systemd dependencies are all in ${PN}-systemd, so just don't include those in your image. I you do include ${PN}-systemd in your image you shouldn't be surprised that systemd ends up in it.
> 
> I'm working through this now. The meta-oe task-basic is sucking in
> rsyslog-systemd. I already made a renamed copy of this so I could use
> openssh instead of dropbear, so this was an easy fix for me.
> 
> But it would be a good idea to keep references to systemd (or sysvinit)
> out of core tasks to make life easier for people.
> 
> And, it would be really nice not to have the ssh daemon determined in
> task-basic. I do not want to use a local var to override that setting,
> since then my task-basic is different from everyone elses.

I guess define PACKAGE_GROUPS for both and then user can chose whichever
one wants in an image.

> 
> Philip
> 
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-Khem