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Khem Raj
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Upstream is dead. The newest tools tarball on SourceForge is uml_utilities_20040406 from 2004-04-08 [1], which is what this recipe tracks, and the project's last artifact of any kind is a 2.4 kernel patch from Nov 2004. The tarball still ships CVS metadata directories. Keeping it building against a current toolchain has meant carrying six portability patches (~450 lines) for missing headers, stat64 -> stat and LDFLAGS handling, with a new one needed every couple of years. Most of what it installs is no longer relevant to UML. The current kernel UML HOWTO [2] documents only the vector transports and does not mention uml_net or uml_switch at all. uml_net is also installed setuid root and execvp()s bare "ifconfig"/"route" off $PATH from that setuid context, which is not something we should be shipping. tunctl is not lost: meta-networking has a standalone tunctl recipe, and uml-utilities only registered it through update-alternatives at the default priority anyway. Nothing in any layer depends on it - the only reference was the meta-oe-extended packagegroup, for build coverage. Debian has since moved to a later 20070815.4 snapshot from a different upstream tree, and even that was removed from testing in Nov 2025 with open RC bugs [3]. Should anyone want uml_mconsole, uml_moo/uml_mkcow or port-helper back, the right starting point is that snapshot rather than this one. [1] https://sourceforge.net/projects/user-mode-linux/files/tools/1/ [2] https://docs.kernel.org/virt/uml/user_mode_linux_howto_v2.html [3] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/uml-utilities Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <khem.raj@oss.qualcomm.com>
Collection of layers for the OE-core universe
Main layer maintainer: Khem Raj raj.khem@gmail.com
This repository is a collection of layers to supplement OE-Core with additional packages, Each layer have designated maintainer Please see the respective READMEs in the layer subdirectories