[OE-core] Core image recipes
Paul Eggleton
paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com
Thu Sep 8 07:35:50 UTC 2011
On Thursday 08 September 2011 04:53:28 you wrote:
> Now I understand what you are talking about, it might best to split this
> into 2 tasks a task-core moved to recipes-core/tasks and a
> task-core-x11, what about that?
I think that's the only way this can really work, yes.
> >> I can't access the LSB specs website right now
> >> unfortunately but does this have an official name within LSB? It's not
> >> "LSB-Core" is it?
> >
> > Yep, it's LSB-Core (yet another meaning of "core", sigh...)
>
> We could rename basic to task-lsb-core if that's what your thinking, but
> as you point out yet another "core".
Then again, if you're talking about LSB it makes sense to use the correct
terminology.
> >> If there's demand for a minimal image with package management (someone
> >> asked for this on IRC just the other day, and it makes sense to me at
> >> least) then that's what I'd suggest turning this into. In which case it
> >> ought to be called core-image-minimal-pkgmgmt or something similar.
> >
> > Any opinions on this one?
>
> I think this is one that they can create themselves it's would be distro
> specific and would require additional space allocated to the rootfs,
> best for the distro do. Remember we are trying to provide foundations
> and examples. core-image-minimal is supposed to be the smallest possible
> image with login and shell. It can be used by someone to build on.
That's exactly what I am thinking about. Since we already have such an image
(core-image-base) that isn't being used for anything else, why not make it
into something useful? Right now since core-image-minimal overrides
IMAGE_INSTALL you can't use IMAGE_FEATURES and POKY_EXTRA_INSTALL to extend
it, nor does it have package management that some users would be expecting; I
think it would be useful to have a base image where those mechanisms do work.
(Maybe the term "minimal" wouldn't apply to this image.)
Cheers,
Paul
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Paul Eggleton
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