[bitbake-devel] [OE-core] Feedback on HOB (new image creator GUI)

[Yu, Ke]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Koen Kooi [mailto:koen at dominion.thruhere.net]
> Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2011 12:33 AM
> To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer
> Cc: Yu, Ke; bitbake-devel at lists.openembedded.org; openembedded-core
> Subject: Re: [OE-core] Feedback on HOB (new image creator GUI)
> 
> 
> 
> Op 30 sep. 2011 om 10:49 heeft Joshua Lock <josh at linux.intel.com> het
> volgende geschreven:
> 
> > On Fri, 2011-09-30 at 08:36 -0600, Yu, Ke wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> As you may already know, a new GUI has been added to bitbake
> >> recently, i.e. HOB (Human Oriented Builder).
> >
> > It's not an acronym, it's just a name - Hob.
> >
> >> It is a graphical image creator that allows user to freely choose
> >> which packages to be built in the image.
> >> The wiki https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/BitBake/GUI/Hob  has more
> >> detail.
> >
> > I'll be changing this page and adding more user-centric info in the
> > coming weeks.
> >
> >> This email is to collect your feedback on the HOB. Current HOB is our
> >> first version, and it surely has many place to improve. We has the
> >> plan to enhance it in Yocto 1.2. So we really hope that you can use
> >> it and provide your valuable feedback . We do think user's
> >> feedback/requirement is the right way to go. Looking forward your valuable
> input.
> >>
> >> Best Regards
> >> Ke
> >>
> >> Ps. The simple way to run hob is:
> >> # touch conf/hob-pre.conf conf/hob-post.conf # bitbake -u hob -r
> >> conf/hob-pre.conf -R conf/hob-post.conf
> >
> > In oe-core (and therefore Poky) we have a wrapper script so from an
> > oe-init-build-env'd build directory you can just call hob.
> >
> > The script will create the required configuration files with some
> > required values.
> 
> Can we have it use local.conf by default please? I hate having to put the same
> info in multiple places

Yes, this is valid. We should be able to use local.conf as pre and post conf file, if they are not specified by user. Thanks for the input. I will add it to my plan.

Regards
Ke