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

[Gabriel Barbu]

On 4/17/2014 5:52 PM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> 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
>

Right, I will investigate.

Best regards,
Gabriel