[Trustable-distros] Minimal Distro Issues

[Ben Brewer]

Hey Edmund,

SSH isn't needed in the final system, however it would be very useful 
for testing, because I can't think of a better way of getting exit codes 
for test programs, or knowing when they finish.

There are hacks we could do by shoving large hashes over the TTY to do 
in-band signalling, but that seems like a much worse idea than just 
adding SSH for testing.

The issues with whether we include an init system to be included are 
likely to be reached at some point in the future anyway.

Regards,
Ben

On 10/09/18 13:11, Edmund J. Sutcliffe wrote:
> Do we need SSH? Isn't serial try enough?
> Shouldn't we be heading for minimal?
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> On 10 September 2018 11:58:47 am Ben Brewer 
> <ben.brewer at codethink.co.uk> wrote:
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>> Hey All,
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>> I'm running into some issues caused by a lack of clear requirements for
>> the minimal distro project.
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>> To get proper tests running we need ssh, which means OpenSSH or 
>> dropbear:
>> OpenSSH requires an outdated version of OpenSSL (1.0.2x) rather than 
>> 1.1.0x.
>> This seems like a security issue/compromise that we don't necessarily 
>> want?
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>> The next issue is that either SSH solution we'll require some form of
>> init system; either sysvinit or systemd.
>> Should the minimal distro be making that kind of decision, i.e. does it
>> make sense for us to dictate systemd?
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>> How minimal should we be trying to go?
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>> Regards,
>> Ben
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