[OE-core] "bitbake -c fetchall" doesn't appear to process EXTRA_IMAGEDEPENDS values

[Robert P. J. Day]

  short followup to yesterday, it seems that running

  $ bitbake -c fetchall ... whatever ...

won't fetch anything defined solely with EXTRA_IMAGEDEPENDS, although
the fetching *will* be done during the build.

  in my case, using oe-core and meta-ti layers to build for
pandaboard, and here's the versions of u-boot allegedly part of the
process:

$ bitbake -s | grep u-boot
nativesdk-u-boot-mkimage                          :2011.06-r0
u-boot                                            :2011.12-r8 <- there
u-boot-fw-utils                                   :2011.06-r1
u-boot-mkimage                                    :2011.06-r0
u-boot-mkimage-native                             :2011.06-r0
$

but the fetchall fetches only the 2011.06 version.  a simple kludge
was to simply force the fetch by adding:

  CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL = "u-boot"

to my local.conf before starting the fetch.

  just FYI, the meta-ti layer uses this extensively:

$ grep -r EXTRA_IMAGEDEPENDS *
conf/machine/beagleboard.conf:EXTRA_IMAGEDEPENDS = "u-boot"
conf/machine/keystone-evm.conf:#EXTRA_IMAGEDEPENDS = "u-boot"
conf/machine/beaglebone.conf:EXTRA_IMAGEDEPENDS = "u-boot"
conf/machine/include/keystone.inc:EXTRA_IMAGEDEPENDS += "u-boot"
conf/machine/include/ti814x.inc:EXTRA_IMAGEDEPENDS += "u-boot"
conf/machine/include/davinci.inc:EXTRA_IMAGEDEPENDS += "u-boot"
conf/machine/include/omap4.inc:EXTRA_IMAGEDEPENDS += "u-boot"
conf/machine/include/omap3.inc:EXTRA_IMAGEDEPENDS += "u-boot x-load"
conf/machine/include/ti33x.inc:EXTRA_IMAGEDEPENDS += "u-boot"
conf/machine/include/ti816x.inc:EXTRA_IMAGEDEPENDS += "u-boot"
$

  so is this an actual bug?  or am i doing something silly?

rday

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