[bitbake-devel] Making a noexec task executable again

[McClintock Matthew-B29882]

On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 7:44 PM, Daniel Lazzari <dlazzari at leapfrog.com> wrote:
> I ran across an interesting challenge today. One of our old image recipes is being ported into denzil and needs to fetch a file to do some whitelist processing. Unfortunately, in denzil, the image class has
>
> do_fetch[noexec] = "1"
>
> which stops the fetch task from running. How can I get it to run again? I tried
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> do_fetch[noexec] = "0"
>
> and
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> do_fetch[noexec] = ""
>
> to no avail.

One option is to add a new task that calls base_do_fetch?

-M