[OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] default-distrovars.inc, task-core-boot.bb: Create distro overridable varibales

Koen Kooi koen at dominion.thruhere.net
Wed May 18 17:29:10 UTC 2011


Op 18 mei 2011, om 19:08 heeft Phil Blundell het volgende geschreven:

> On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 09:40 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
>> Problem I have is, I dont want udev in RDEPENDS which is added by
>> task-core-boot
>> and task-core-boot is added to DISTRO_EXTRA_RDEPENDS through
>> default-distrovars.inc -> defaultsetup.conf -> bitbake.conf
>> 
>> and my distro adds DISTRO_EXTRA_RDEPENDS to its RDEPENDS
>> as I think the variable is meant for distro's to define some extra
>> stuff if needed.
>> 
>> How should I solve this problem ?
> 
> Well, what I did in micro-base-image was simply to not use
> task-core-boot at all.  But in your case I was thinking that you could
> overlay that recipe with from your distro's layer and make it do
> whatever you wanted.

The fact that we have layers does not mean we need to follow the silo mentality you seem to prefer. If task-base in oe-core stops being usefull we should fix it, now play around in our own little sandboxes.



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