[OE-core] [PATCH] image.bbclass: Add a method for creating a companion debug filesystem

[Christopher Larson]

On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Christopher Larson <clarson at kergoth.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 7:42 PM, Mark Hatle <mark.hatle at windriver.com>
> wrote:
>
>> The companion debug filesystem contains only the package database and the
>> complementary *-dbg packages for the main filesystem component.  This is
>> useful in a production environment to produce a companion filesystem
>> capable
>> of remote system debugging, without requiring corresponding debug
>> symbols or
>> source code on the device.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Mark Hatle <mark.hatle at windriver.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Robert Yang <liezhi.yang at windriver.com>
>>
>> If dbg pkgs have already been installed to the rootfs image,
>> the installation to companion debug filesystem will fail,
>> because both of image creation make use of the same pm
>> database.
>>
>> In this situation, try to copy installed dbg files from rootfs
>> image to companion debug filesystem.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Hongxu Jia <hongxu.jia at windriver.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Robert Yang <liezhi.yang at windriver.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Mark Hatle <mark.hatle at windriver.com>
>>
>
> This looks pretty good to me, nicely done.
>
> Acked-by: Christopher Larson <chris_larson at mentor.com>
>

Following up on this, are there any objections to getting this merged for
after fido?
-- 
Christopher Larson
clarson at kergoth dot com
Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
Maintainer - Tslib
Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics
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