[OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] image.bbclass: reactivate do_fetch, do_unpack and do_patch

[Geoffrey Levillain]

On 03/01/2017 14:23, Geoffrey Levillain wrote :
> On 03/01/2017 12:49, Richard Purdie wrote :
>> On Tue, 2017-01-03 at 12:12 +0100, Geoffrey Levillain wrote:
>>> Running fetch/unpack/patch can be used to get some image-specific
>>> configurations files to apply with a function in the
>>> ROOTFS_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND variable.
>>>
>>> Hence delete the "noexec" line corresponding to these tasks so we can
>>> run them when needed.
>> You could make this argument for the other noexec lines too and nothing
>> does this by default as far as I'm aware. Could you not do something
>> like:
>>
>> python () {
>>      d.delVarFlag("do_fetch", "noexec")
>> }
>>
>> in your specific recipes which need this?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Richard
>
> Other noexec lines are more related to program compilation,
> I think that fetch configuration files to apply is a more generic case
> for images.
>
> The argument could work for do_install but there is a risk of overwrite
> with other version of same config files, image-specific configuration
> must be on higher priority, so there is a need to install them after
> every other task (to eventually overwrite less specific config. files).
>
> I could do the delVarFlag thing but I think that fetch image-specific 
> file
> is generic, and that the noexec flag here doesn't save much time anyway.
>
> Regards,
>
> Geoffrey Levillain
Is the patch still "on hold", or is it "dropped" ?


Regards,

Geoffrey Levillain