[Openembedded-architecture] Yocto Compatible 2.0 + signature changes

[Patrick Ohly]

On Tue, 2017-05-09 at 10:17 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-05-09 at 11:08 +0200, Patrick Ohly wrote:
> > I've done something similar when enabling Smack. The downside was
> > that one also wants a corresponding DISTRO_FEATURE, and then both
> > overrides and DISTRO_FEATURE have to be set consistently. It isn't
> > possible to just set the DISTRO_FEATURE and then set the override
> > based on that automatically, so the traditional way of choosing
> > distro features no longer works.
> 
> I'm not saying this is a good idea or that we should do this but I
> suspect it is at least possible:
> 
> DISTROOVERRIDES .= "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'refkit-firewall', ':refkit-firewall', '', d)}"

How does that address the (potential?) cyclic dependency of
"DISTRO_FEATURES depends on OVERRIDES which depends on DISTRO_FEATURES"?

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