[OE-core] [RFC][PATCH 0/7] image creation improvements

[Richard Purdie]

On Fri, 2016-05-06 at 17:58 +0300, Ed Bartosh wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This patchset contains various improvements for the image creation
> functionality
> made by Patchick Ohly during his work on bug #9076:
>  - added support for zip compression
>  - fixed dependency calculation for conversion chaining
>  - converted vmdk/vdi/qcow2 image types into conversion commands
>  - renamed COMPRESSION variables to CONVERSION as the term
> "compression"
>    is no longer accurate
>  - prioritized specialized image creation methods over using
> conversion chaining
> 
> The changes look reasonable to me. However, it would be good to hear
> other
> people opinions as some changes are quite complex.

Ross made some changes to the imagetypes code and I suspect this series
won't apply on top of them. I also don't like moving that dependency
code to image.bbclass, even if its the only caller. The idea is to keep
the "image types" code into its own class.

I'll queue the zip piece but the rest probably needs to be rebased...

Cheers,

Richard