Re: [poky] [PATCH] base-files: add usage warning to motd

Ross Burton <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.yoctoproject.lists.poky
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Turns out I forgot to save the motd in my editor, so v2 incoming.

Ross

> On 7 Feb 2024, at 14:51, Ross Burton via lists.yoctoproject.org <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> From: Ross Burton <[email protected]>
> 
> The Poky distro is explicitly a _reference_ distribution for _testing_
> and _development_ purposes.  It enables most hardware and software
> features so that they can be tested, but this also means that
> from a security point of view the attack surface is very large.
> 
> We encourage anyone using OpenEmbedded for production use to create their
> own distribution and not use Poky.  To encourage this behaviour further,
> add a warning to /etc/motd when Poky is used so the developer will see it
> when they log in.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <[email protected]>
> ---
> meta-poky/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_%.bbappend | 1 +
> meta-poky/recipes-core/base-files/files/poky/motd       | 5 +++++
> 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 meta-poky/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_%.bbappend
> create mode 100644 meta-poky/recipes-core/base-files/files/poky/motd
> 
> diff --git a/meta-poky/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_%.bbappend b/meta-poky/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_%.bbappend
> new file mode 100644
> index 00000000000..8802adbb46b
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/meta-poky/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_%.bbappend
> @@ -0,0 +1 @@
> +FILESEXTRAPATHS:prepend := "${THISDIR}/files:"
> diff --git a/meta-poky/recipes-core/base-files/files/poky/motd b/meta-poky/recipes-core/base-files/files/poky/motd
> new file mode 100644
> index 00000000000..bffb7fadf1d
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/meta-poky/recipes-core/base-files/files/poky/motd
> @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
> +
> +WARNING: Poky is a reference Yocto Project distribution that should be used for
> +testing and development purposes only. It is recommended that you create your
> +own distribution.
> +
> -- 
> 2.34.1
> 
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