[bitbake-devel] [PATCH] world-image: add extra target

[Chris Larson]

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com>wrote:

> * similar to world target, but collects all PACKAGES
> * recipes marked with EXCLUDE_FROM_WORLD are excluded from world as well
>   as world-image
> * recipes marked with EXCLUDE_FROM_WORLD_IMAGE are excluded completely
>   from world-image, sometimes you can build 2 recipes in same sysroot,
>   but cannot install them in the same image
> * PACKAGES listed in EXCLUDE_PACKAGES_FROM_WORLD_IMAGE are also
>   excluded. You can remove e.g. ${PN}-dbg, but keep all other PACKAGES.
>
> Signed-off-by: Martin Jansa <Martin.Jansa at gmail.com>
>

bitbake should have zero knowledge of what an image even is, much less
hardcoding awareness of the IMAGE_INSTALL variable. Instead, we should
provide a means to hook into bitbake's knowledge of the recipes included in
the world image, and let a world-image recipe utilize that.
-- 
Christopher Larson
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