Hi Etienne Thanks for the suggestion and I agree, it's a good alternative for coreutils tools, we must mention it in page.
On Tue, Jul 30, 2024 at 10:04 AM Etienne Cordonnier <ecordonn...@snap.com> wrote: > > Hi, > I saw in the latest yocto-status email that this page was created regarding > meta-gplv2 replacement: > > https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Meta-gpl2_layer_replacement (thanks Khem) > > I'd like to remind of the option to use uutils-coreutils from > meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-core/uutils-coreutils as a replacement of > GNU coreutils (using PREFERRED_PROVIDER_coreutils = "uutils-coreutils"). It > is much easier than transitioning from coreutils to e.g. busybox, because the > options used are the same in GNU coreutils and uutils-coreutils, while > busybox uses different options. > > The caveat at the moment is that uutils-coreutils is still in beta phase, so > some flags are still buggy. However the vast majority of the common flags > work without any issue. > > Étienne
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