[OE-core] [PATCH] initramfs-framework: split setup-live and install-efi into separate recipes

[Otavio Salvador]

On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 3:35 AM, Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly at intel.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2017-09-02 at 15:17 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 9:04 PM, California Sullivan
>> <california.l.sullivan at intel.com> wrote:
>> > Having these the initramfs-framework recipe
>> > forced initramfs-framework
>> > users to build several tools they didn't need, and made it more
>> > difficult to declare the recipe as allarch.
>> >
>> > Fixes [YOCTO #12024].
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: California Sullivan <california.l.sullivan at intel.com
>> > >
>>
>> The patch should be based on the allarch patch I sent as it adds the
>> dependencies on the whitelist. So you can also set them as allarch.
>
> I would prefer to keep initramfs-framework-setup-live/install-efi as
> arch-specific and only make initramfs-framework itself allarch. It's
> just a gut feeling about the (minor) advantage of not having to rebuild
> these two small recipes vs. the additional complexity of the layer.conf
> and having to keep that up-to-date.

The recipe is a shell script and there is no reason to not make it
allarch. The need to keep layer.conf up to date is minor as it is
going to be need only when new dependencies are added. Not ofthen...

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