[OE-core] How to add a distro feature from an image recipe?

[Paul Eggleton]

On Thursday 17 April 2014 17:48:48 Gabriel Barbu wrote:
> On 4/17/2014 5:28 PM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > On Thursday 17 April 2014 17:24:17 Gabriel Barbu wrote:
> >> On 4/17/2014 4:42 PM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> >>> On Thursday 17 April 2014 11:27:16 Gabriel Barbu wrote:
> >>>> Or, if not, what would be the best way to achieve this?
> >>>> The need is that I have a number of images and only want to add a
> >>>> certain
> >>>> distro feature (ptest) to just one or two of them (some test images).
> >>> 
> >>> You can have ptest enabled in the distro but ptest packages installed
> >>> only
> >>> in certain images. That is the only way this kind of thing can work. If
> >>> enabling the ptest in DISTRO_FEATURES is causing changes in an image
> >>> where ptest is not installed, that should be considered a bug.
> >> 
> >> Yes, I was afraid it’s this way :)
> >> Alright, I can settle for just not having them installed.
> >> 
> >> But what I’m witnessing now is that having:
> >> "ptest" in my DISTRO_FEATURES, and
> >> no "ptest-pkgs" in IMAGE_FEATURES
> >> results in the image having ptests installed.
> > 
> > Is that bug 5702, or something else?
> > 
> >    https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5702
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Paul
> 
> Possibly more. Right now I only see:
> ./dbus-ptest/ptest
> ./perl/ptest
> 
> in a custom image I have, but I will also try with a bigger image to
> check if I get more.

So the dbus-ptest one we're aware of (and the fix is on the mailing list) but 
it would be interesting to know how the perl-ptest one got there.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre