[OE-core] [PATCH] image: Add missing depends on virtual/kernel for depmod data

Dan McGregor danismostlikely at gmail.com
Tue Jan 27 17:20:53 UTC 2015


On 27 January 2015 at 09:29, Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> We need the depmod data so that the kernel depmod command works successfully
> at rootfs time. The fact this was working inconsistently is now highlighted
> after the command was made to error out. A simple test case is:
>
> bitbake virtual/kernel image
> bitbake vrituak/kernel -c clean
> bitbake image -c rootfs -f
>
> We fix it by adding the missing dependency.

On a similar note, I have a patch that makes kernel depmod optional
when generating images. I used it to create an image that can be used
as a container without also including kernel depmod info. I shall post
it.



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