[OE-core] [RFC PATCH 0/1] QA check for defined packages

[Richard Purdie]

On Tue, 2011-10-11 at 15:29 -0700, Joshua Lock wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> I'm looking for some comments on this WIP patch.
> 
> The reason I've added this is because the hob GUI requires us to offer much
> more reliable metadata - we show the user available packages, as defined by
> each recipe, to add to their image. Should a recipe define a package and yet
> not actually create it and the user has included that in their image we cause
> errors at build time.
> 
> However whilst the idea seems sound enough, there are some caveats - running
> a world build with this patch I see failures fairly early on at least a few
> of which I'd expect we'll need to special-case:
> * eglibc-local
> * linux-yocto
> * linux-libc-headers
> * gcc-runtime

You'd probably get much better results from this patch if you account
for ALLOW_EMPTY_<pkgname> btw...

Cheers,

Richard