[Buildroot] [RFC, PATCH 2/8] package/dropbear: Add separate configuration options for client and server

Gustavo Zacarias gustavo at zacarias.com.ar
Tue Mar 4 00:14:52 UTC 2014


On 01/16/2014 05:52 AM, Jeremy Kerr wrote:

> Currently, the dropbear package installs both client and server
> components. For example, this means that when we only want the
> client binaries, we also get the server run from init.
> 
> Even though it's a multi-call binary (the client and server
> exist in the same executable), we'd like to selectively install the
> links and init scripts. This change introduces separate configuration
> options (both 'default y') for the client and server bits.

Normally we don't make initscript installation an option and since the
dropbear package options are essentially a no-op what's the point?
(if you don't want sshd to startup on boot you can use a post build
script to just remove the initscript from the target, that's the
recommended way).
Regards.




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