[OE-core] [PATCH 5/8] Extensible SDK: allow for installation without preparing build system

[Christopher Larson]

On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 8:18 PM, Chen Qi <Qi.Chen at windriver.com> wrote:

> When publishing SDK, what we want is basically its metadata and sstate
> cache objects. We don't want the SDK to be prepared with running bitbake
> as it takes time which reproduces meaningless output for the published SDK.
>
> So this patch adds an option to allow for SDK to be extracted without
> preparing the build system.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chen Qi <Qi.Chen at windriver.com>
>

I expect the intent behind the preparation was for it to be a build from
100% sstate, but that’s not actually the case on all systems. If that’s the
case, maybe it should be run with locked sigs and ignore failure, to avoid
doing a real from-scratch build at install time.
-- 
Christopher Larson
clarson at kergoth dot com
Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
Maintainer - Tslib
Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics
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