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

[Joshua Lock]

On 10/12/2011 05:39 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> 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...

Indeed, that does look useful.

So, ignoring the Hob discussion I still think this QA check will be
generally useful. Are others open to this if I work on it further?

Regards,

Joshua
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Joshua Lock
        Yocto Project "Johannes factotum"
        Intel Open Source Technology Centre