[OE-core] Creating a machine specific recipe for config file

[Stephen Arnold]

Package management overhead seems like a small-ish price for being able to
manage/coordinate custom configs with real depends.  Did I mention I like
2) better?

Steve


On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Saul Wold <sgw at linux.intel.com> wrote:

>
> Folks,
>
> We have had an open enhancement in the form of bugzilla #4011 (
> https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4011).
>
> I am currently working on this and want to get some feedback regarding the
> design, the below list of config files would move to one recipe in
> recipes-bsp, which will reduce the number of .bbappends that a BSP writer
> might need to create in order to customize the configuration of the BSP.
>
> Overall, my proposal is to move all the BSP related config files into one
> recipe directory tree. Create a recipe that can have a package or packages
> that are RRECOMMENDS on.
>
> We have 2 choices on the packaging side:
>
> 1) 1 Package to rule them all (conffiles)
>   - RPROVIDES PN-conf
>   - conffile.bbclass
>       RRECOMMENDS = "${PN}-conf"
>       # Can be overriden in recipe
>       CONFFILES_conffiles ?= "${PN}.conf"
>   - Will provide files not needed on final image, small
>     amount of extra space used.
>
> 2) 1 package / conf file (${PN}-conf)
>   - exactly what's needed will be installed
>   - no needs for additional RPROVIDES
>   - More packaging overhead, package data might be bigger than actual
> contents!
>
> Currently the list of recipes/config files affected include:
>
>
> meta/recipes-bsp/pointercal/pointercal/*/pointercal
> meta/recipes-bsp/formfactor/files/*/machconfig
> meta/recipes-bsp/alsa-state/alsa-state/asound.conf
> meta/recipes-graphics/xorg-xserver/xserver-xf86-config/*/xorg.conf
> meta/recipes-bsp/keymaps/files/keymap.sh
> meta/recipes-graphics/xinput-calibrator/pointercal-xinput/
> pointercal.xinput
> meta/recipes-graphics/tslib/tslib/ts.conf
>
>
> Possibly also:
> meta/recipes-core/init-ifupdown/init-ifupdown-1.0
> meta/recipes-connectivity/connman/connman-conf
> meta/recipes-connectivity/bluez5/bluez5/bluetooth.conf
> meta/recipes-bsp/apmd/apmd-3.2.2-14/apmd_proxy.conf
>
> Comment, thoughts, ...
>
> Thanks
> --
>     Sau!
>
> Saul Wold
> Yocto Component Wrangler @ Intel
> Yocto Project / Poky Build System
>
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