[OE-core] --conf Was: Features in Yocto Project 1.7

[Martin Jansa]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 08:11:20PM -0400, Trevor Woerner wrote:
> On 03/24/14 12:00, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > I think from my perspective, in 1.7 I'd like to see us looking at
> > "Developer Workflow".
> 
> Maybe I'm using things incorrectly :-)
> 
> But I often find that I'm switching between building different images.
> For example, one moment I might be building core-image-minimal (CIM),
> then later I'll want to build a GUI image with Wayland.
> 
> Switching between CIM and the GUI image requires changes to both
> conf/local.conf and conf/bblayers.conf. I will either have two separate
> sets of files and symlink between them, or I'll need to edit them by
> hand to comment/uncomment out various blocks. I often get this wrong and
> will need to restart a couple times before the build can hope to
> complete successfully.
> 
> If I could wish for one workflow change, it would be the ability to
> switch between various build configurations with the minimum of fuss:
> - maybe the layer information could be contained within the
> configuration file, then on the bitbake cmdline I could just say
> "bitbake --conf wayland" or "bitbake --conf mycim" and it would know to
> find and use conf/wayland.conf or conf/mycim.conf?
> - maybe the local.conf could be renamed wayland.conf and the
> bblayers.conf could be renamed wayland.bblayers then I could type
> "bitbake --conf wayland" and it would know to look for wayland.conf and
> wayland.bblayers?
> 
> Does this sort of workflow make sense to others? Or have people noticed
> this and solved it in some clever way?

Can you show some example of config you need to have wor wayland and
cannot have for core-image-minimal?

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Martin 'JaMa' Jansa     jabber: Martin.Jansa at gmail.com
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