[bitbake-devel] [PATCH 25/32] Hob: Add an extra 50M space if zypper is selected

[Joshua Lock]

On 29/02/12 20:19, Xu, Dongxiao wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 13:29 -0800, Joshua Lock wrote:
>> On 29/02/12 06:15, Shane Wang wrote:
>>> From: Dongxiao Xu<dongxiao.xu at intel.com>
>>>
>>> An workaround to judge if zypper is selected, we will add an extra
>>> 51200 KB to image size.
>>
>> This sort of change sets alarms off, especially as we already have
>> variables in the core metadata to affect image size (one of which is
>> employed for this very reason) - are we not honouring those variables in
>> hob?
>
> Thanks Josh for the suggestion.
>
> The situation we are facing is that, Hob could only query the variable
> values from bb.configuration.data, which doesn't include the
> image_types.bbclass and rootfs_rpm.bbclass. Therefore it is not able to
> get those variable's updated value in these classes.

I understand the problem, that's why the old hob forced a pre-conf which 
included INHERIT += "image_types" - not the cleanest solution but 
arguably better than hard coding values as at least this way we respect 
user settings.

Cheers,
Joshua
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Joshua Lock
         Yocto Project "Johannes factotum"
         Intel Open Source Technology Centre