From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-GM-THRID: 6487938995161399296 X-Received: by 10.28.144.210 with SMTP id s201mr133355wmd.0.1510823976603; Thu, 16 Nov 2017 01:19:36 -0800 (PST) X-BeenThere: isar-users@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.223.152.120 with SMTP id v111ls263915wrb.1.gmail; Thu, 16 Nov 2017 01:19:36 -0800 (PST) X-Google-Smtp-Source: AGs4zMZh43Gb5JMA9zQlAABQpZkENtEzo0zg3cU9bv5AyVe+0aCNRNhQAtf8ATolGeb01USHe9n3 X-Received: by 10.28.135.143 with SMTP id j137mr124690wmd.9.1510823976295; Thu, 16 Nov 2017 01:19:36 -0800 (PST) ARC-Seal: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; t=1510823976; cv=none; d=google.com; s=arc-20160816; b=RBWP1ZpumXJ+NvvTZt2tz7CEtkL5nYG4zvgTFK4niFpcq6SpjBjk8ua8Ye7NuDJiK9 NEDTbXJgKhriF1mYoXO1rUrqOSXjvkPtV4g9MkG/g3k8+jYUeyhgJL9v2AOtJqIVtsAG 7i7fTnKwVCl8eUCqtDggCInSjdkayoHHN0+rAR6Rm9yRF+x1iNsFEYc86N4/nPquLGMn Hqj0wc7Be6nqsNJC0kjQwaMhmMHOvqryTOSelrvpw0O6CXqVcZViC4pcuHU6H+nFZe+B dobcIk/55BA5SgiSl+EgCd5FbHffkR2bMgpHK5ArtJk7/q0RGcwdJj+AKtbelEkSFAyJ m8qQ== ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=arc-20160816; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-language:in-reply-to:mime-version :user-agent:date:message-id:from:references:to:subject :arc-authentication-results; bh=R/E/Q50V9+fto++BXyNPQ/uCLXnO/LjVHYn51GGfs40=; b=aJQLCOdo9nZ5gxk8tDV6aYpZ45Z9hCao4bY4gNphItZZPjAY6QB7xvrzNvzDF/8lW5 M6ZxW9Fpntuyt5oaJ9lewy4vtr/qqdIR6R/6/A5KkdinKzBiwwKEzSqNRaDHF7JPMwLV Uq5zV86zgd/vpXcm3yxemNtG8Rx/0mE2dFKbMenrFiJXfcQSU1rkS5hmoakSzgNUeTgC FMWgGGhc++CcyN13d7ddA4cENR6wZ92ogsqoGd+B+eklUfZO0Y41u/OYBCojuicWnVai GWsGNF5TXiDZj6Mk0Mx3+oHTXxTd+5CIqjrjXqHHICgQMJdSfu/6bFsCQ3PNa+Cv2Pyf NGDw== ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; gmr-mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of asmirnov@ilbers.de designates 85.214.62.211 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=asmirnov@ilbers.de Return-Path: Received: from aqmola.ilbers.de (aqmola.ilbers.de. [85.214.62.211]) by gmr-mx.google.com with ESMTPS id l9si57390wrf.4.2017.11.16.01.19.36 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 16 Nov 2017 01:19:36 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of asmirnov@ilbers.de designates 85.214.62.211 as permitted sender) client-ip=85.214.62.211; Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of asmirnov@ilbers.de designates 85.214.62.211 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=asmirnov@ilbers.de Received: from [10.0.2.15] ([188.227.110.165]) (authenticated bits=0) by aqmola.ilbers.de (8.14.4/8.14.4/Debian-4+deb7u1) with ESMTP id vAG9JXPd018079 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2017 10:19:35 +0100 Subject: Re: download_dev-random hook question To: isar-users@googlegroups.com References: <20171116090453.pkret232zz6kxi23@MD1KR9XC.ww002.siemens.net> From: Alexander Smirnov Message-ID: <276a3671-4986-633b-0c28-e47a63a8e2e6@ilbers.de> Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 12:19:27 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20171116090453.pkret232zz6kxi23@MD1KR9XC.ww002.siemens.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-TUID: JTDcsrf+qBex 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