Re: download_dev-random hook question

[Alexander Smirnov <asmirnov@ilbers.de>]

Hi,

On 11/16/2017 12:04 PM, [ext] Christian Storm wrote:
>> I just stumbled over the download_dev-random multistrap hook:
>> Why is it that you only create /dev/{,u}random?
>> Why not also create other essential files like /dev/{null,zero}
>> as well [...]
> 
> ... and, a further question that just came to my mind: Why is this handled
> in a multistrap hook in the first place? Seems rather implicit to me. Why
> not do it explicitly in buildchroot.bb and isar-image-base.bb?
>

IIRC correctly multistrap configuration was taken from Debian/Embian 
examples. So I'd personally prefer to drop all the hooks and make 
necessary calls explicitly in recipes.

So I see it like the following:
  - recipe creates rootfs, mounts necessary folders and creates device 
files.
  - recipe calls multistrap which only downloads the packages and unpack 
them to rootfs.
  - recipe calls configscript which performs post-configuration for rootfs.

This would be very helpful in context of switching to debootstrap.

Alex