webui by default in openbmc images

[Andrew Geissler]

On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 12:11 PM Ed Tanous <ed at tanous.net> wrote:

> The problem a while ago was that the webui is not able to build
> offline, and completely bypasses yoctos do_fetch step, so the sources
> aren't traceable and make the software bill of materials wrong.  What
> exists in the OpenBMC recipe is literally just calling NPM install and
> using the NPM registry to build the webui, which isn't able to be
> built in an offline cluster.  That, along with issues with some users
> proxy configurations why it was never installed by default.  I think
> we need to take this up a level, and if we decide that we don't need
> the defaults to be built hermetically or traced, and we don't want to
> support devs with a weird proxy, that's fine, but it should be a
> project level decision on that, not specifically scoped at the webui
> as a default.

Ahh, that's a good point. These issues haven't been a concern for me
but I can see how that could affect others. I updated the commit to
create the new image feature but to not include it by default in all
openbmc images.

https://gerrit.openbmc.org/c/openbmc/openbmc/+/66675