[OE-core] [PATCH] ifupdown: add ptest

[Richard Purdie]

On Tue, 2020-02-04 at 21:50 +0100, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> imagefeatures.py does set:
> 
> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/base-utils = "packagegroup-core-base-
> utils"
> VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_base-utils = "packagegroup-core-base-utils"
> 
> which I believe does actually replace replace busybox with that
> packagegroup in any image, as packagegroup-core-boot RDEPENDS on
> VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_base-utils.
> 
> I'm not sure why imagefeatures.py only does 'bitbake("--graphviz
> core-image-sato")' instead of building and booting that image
> properly, but this is exactly the place where it should happen.

I suspect it dates from a time where booting and testing the image
likely wouldn't have worked. It sounds like there would be a lot more
value in that now.

I merged this patch on the basis it was a good step forwards on the
issue in case that wasn't clear.

Cheers,

Richard