[OE-core] couple questions about IMAGE_FEATURES and package groups

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at crashcourse.ca
Thu Nov 14 10:48:29 UTC 2013


  first, in the list of "Available IMAGE_FEATURES" in
core-image.bbclass, should there be additional entries for
staticdev-pkgs and ptest-pkgs? for the sake of completeness?

  also, i'm under the impression that the IMAGE_FEATURES is
*primarily* used to refer to package groups, but it also supports a
small number of "validitems" that are processed specially, as shown in
image.bbclass:

# IMAGE_FEATURES may contain any available package group
IMAGE_FEATURES ?= ""
IMAGE_FEATURES[type] = "list"
IMAGE_FEATURES[validitems] += "debug-tweaks read-only-rootfs package-management"

  but core-image.bbclass has a package group for that last item:

PACKAGE_GROUP_package-management = "${ROOTFS_PKGMANAGE}"

which doesn't appear to represent an actual package group? is that
just a mistake? or what does it mean?

rday

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