[OE-core] [PATCH] core-image-basic.bb: Allow user extensions
Paul Eggleton
paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com
Wed Oct 30 15:33:42 UTC 2013
On Wednesday 30 October 2013 08:55:09 Gary Thomas wrote:
> On 2013-10-30 08:47, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > On Wednesday 30 October 2013 08:22:35 Gary Thomas wrote:
> >> Allow the user to provide additional packages to this image.
> >> This lets core-image-basic behave like all other core-image*
> >> recipes (which do support CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL), as well
> >> as match the documentation which suggests this as the mode to
> >> extend any core-image* image.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com>
> >> ---
> >>
> >> meta/recipes-extended/images/core-image-basic.bb | 3 +++
> >> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/images/core-image-basic.bb
> >> b/meta/recipes-extended/images/core-image-basic.bb index 091f57d..e393a28
> >> 100644
> >> --- a/meta/recipes-extended/images/core-image-basic.bb
> >> +++ b/meta/recipes-extended/images/core-image-basic.bb
> >> @@ -3,9 +3,12 @@ functionality installed."
> >>
> >> IMAGE_FEATURES += "splash ssh-server-openssh"
> >>
> >> +CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL ?= ""
> >>
> >> +
> >
> > Not sure if it's my mail client but the above looks slightly mangled; in
> > any case the above addition shouldn't be needed because
> > core-image.bbclass already does this.
>
> Are you sure it counts? core-image.bbclass is included after this would be
> evaluated, or does that not matter?
It doesn't matter in most cases, because the value won't actually be expanded
until later. Values aren't expanded unless you use immediate expansion (the :=
operator) or you d.getVar("SOMEVAR", True) is called from python code to
return the expanded value.
Cheers,
Paul
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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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