Bug 1955

Summary: kiosk mode for hob
Product: [Build System, Metadata & Runtime] Hob Reporter: Koen Kooi <koen>
Component: hobAssignee: Jessica <jessica.zhang>
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: Low CC: belen.barros.pena, cristian.iorga, cristiana.voicu, jessica.zhang, jiajun.xu, josh, poky.bs.watcher, poky.watcher, yp.sdk.watcher, yp.watcher
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: Future   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Multiple   
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: No (bug/feature does not impact docs)

Description Koen Kooi 2012-02-02 07:24:09 UTC
When distributing a preconfigured setup to customers hob creates a lot of problems since it allows people to change distro wide settings like gplv3 recipes.
The kiosk mode would read local.conf and configure all hob settings from there and hide all the knobs that would break binary compatibility.
Comment 1 Cristiana Voicu 2013-04-15 08:14:28 UTC
Hi,
Can you please provide an use case for this feature?
Thanks!
Comment 2 Koen Kooi 2013-04-15 08:21:02 UTC
Apart from the one mentioned in the description already? 
Is it that time of year already where people need to boost their bugzilla stats again?
Comment 3 Belen Barros Pena 2013-04-15 09:25:20 UTC
I would be very grateful if we could keep comments in Hob bugs polite and civil.

Thank you.
Comment 4 Cristian Iorga 2013-04-15 12:22:55 UTC
Hi Koen,

In order to better understand how we can implement this enhancement, we need a use case.
It is alright to do our own investigation on this one (which we will do), but we are asking for your help to clarify this one, because maybe you saw specific areas that will cause trouble in Hob if a user selects or not GPLv3 recipes.

The use case that you have exposed in not very common, because Hob still is at the moment a tool to get started easily with a customized embedded Linux distro.
Hence, we are asking for your help to clarify the use case.

Regards,
Cristian Iorga
Comment 5 Belen Barros Pena 2013-04-17 14:58:08 UTC
Changing status to needinfo
Comment 6 Jessica 2013-08-12 17:30:17 UTC
we've tidy up hob and configuration dramatically, please verify the case still exist...