[OE-core] [PATCH 0/2] psplash fixes

[Paul Eggleton]

On Monday 19 December 2011 19:27:06 Koen Kooi wrote:
> Op 19 dec. 2011, om 19:22 heeft Paul Eggleton het volgende geschreven:
> > On Monday 19 December 2011 18:50:35 Koen Kooi wrote:
> >> Op 19 dec. 2011, om 18:43 heeft Paul Eggleton het volgende geschreven:
> >>> Set the default psplash image to the OpenEmbedded logo, and provide
> >>> a
> >>> script to allow people to use their own custom image.
> >> 
> >> What I did in OE-classic and meta-angstrom is to use
> >> update-alternatives to provide different psplash images. This way you
> >> can choose a different splash for each image instead of having a
> >> distro wide one. Is something like that suitable for oe-core as well?
> > 
> > Sounds like a useful capability, however, does this mean that when you
> > want to override it in the image you end up with both psplash versions
> > installed?
> in a splashless image you can just do 'IMAGE_INSTALL += psplash-angstrom and
> it will only install that one. If you want to reuse an existing, unmodified
>  image with psplash and add your own, then you will end up with both.

Although I guess another way to do it would be to do a VIRTUAL-RUNTIME type 
thing like we do for other such selections. At the moment in OE-core, psplash 
is brought in via task-core-console, and whilst it is a separate variable that 
could be overridden it's a task which once built really makes it impossible to 
customise per-image.

What about a "splash" IMAGE_FEATURE and then a VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_splash to 
select which psplash to install? Would update-alternatives be needed at all in 
that case?

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre