[OE-core] [bitbake-devel] Feedback on HOB (new image creator GUI)

[Koen Kooi]

Op 30 sep. 2011 om 12:16 heeft Joshua Lock <josh at linux.intel.com> het volgende geschreven:

> On Fri, 2011-09-30 at 11:32 -0500, Koen Kooi wrote:
>> 
>> Op 30 sep. 2011 om 10:49 heeft Joshua Lock <josh at linux.intel.com> het volgende geschreven:
>> 
>>> On Fri, 2011-09-30 at 08:36 -0600, Yu, Ke wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> As you may already know, a new GUI has been added to bitbake recently, 
>>>> i.e. HOB (Human Oriented Builder). 
>>> 
>>> It's not an acronym, it's just a name - Hob.
>>> 
>>>> It is a graphical image creator that 
>>>> allows user to freely choose which packages to be built in the image. 
>>>> The wiki https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/BitBake/GUI/Hob  has more 
>>>> detail.
>>> 
>>> I'll be changing this page and adding more user-centric info in the
>>> coming weeks.
>>> 
>>>> This email is to collect your feedback on the HOB. Current HOB is our 
>>>> first version, and it surely has many place to improve. We has the plan 
>>>> to enhance it in Yocto 1.2. So we really hope that you can use it and 
>>>> provide your valuable feedback . We do think user's feedback/requirement 
>>>> is the right way to go. Looking forward your valuable input.
>>>> 
>>>> Best Regards
>>>> Ke
>>>> 
>>>> Ps. The simple way to run hob is:
>>>> # touch conf/hob-pre.conf conf/hob-post.conf
>>>> # bitbake -u hob -r conf/hob-pre.conf -R conf/hob-post.conf
>>> 
>>> In oe-core (and therefore Poky) we have a wrapper script so from an
>>> oe-init-build-env'd build directory you can just call hob.
>>> 
>>> The script will create the required configuration files with some
>>> required values.
>> 
>> Can we have it use local.conf by default please? I hate having to put the same info in multiple places
> 
> We do use local.conf in that if values are set there and not in either
> of the hob configuration files the values from local.conf are used
> however I had an explicit feature request to not modify local.conf.
> 

In the past it would ignore DISTRO, leading to much headscratching


> I actually started looking at having Hob use an independent
> configuration file so that Hob settings would persist across build
> directories, this didn't make it in the 1.1 time frame unfortunately.
> 
> Cheers,
> Joshua
> -- 
> Joshua Lock
>        Yocto Project "Johannes factotum"
>        Intel Open Source Technology Centre
>