From: Ross Burton <Ross.Burton@arm.com>
To: Ross Burton <Ross.Burton@arm.com>
Cc: "poky@lists.yoctoproject.org" <poky@lists.yoctoproject.org>
Subject: Re: [poky] [PATCH] base-files: add usage warning to motd
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2024 16:49:34 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6830CA62-13A6-4E25-B064-8CC4A912DDA9@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240207145125.2317134-1-ross.burton@arm.com>
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 <ross.burton=arm.com@lists.yoctoproject.org> wrote:
>
> From: Ross Burton <ross.burton@arm.com>
>
> 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 <ross.burton@arm.com>
> ---
> 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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2024-02-07 14:51 [PATCH] base-files: add usage warning to motd ross.burton
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