[OE-core] [PATCH] image_types.bbclass: get rid of IMAGE_DEPENDS

Richard Purdie richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org
Thu Jun 15 13:27:29 UTC 2017


On Thu, 2017-06-15 at 14:25 +0100, Burton, Ross wrote:
> 
> On 15 June 2017 at 12:59, Ed Bartosh <ed.bartosh at linux.intel.com>
> wrote:
> > The IMAGE_DEPENDS variable can be overriden to add dependencies for
> > individual image types.  Those dependencies are added to the
> > do_rootfs
> > task, while they really should be added to the specific image type
> > tasks.
> > 
> Other layers such as meta-raspberrypi use IMAGE_DEPENDS, should we
> move oe-core to use [depends] but handle IMAGE_DEPENDS (with a
> deprecation warning) for some of the 2.4 cycle?

Yes, a fatal error if IMAGE_DEPENDS is set and telling the user what to
change it to would be best IMO.

Cheers,

Richard



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