[oe] [RFC] a small bbclass for task recipes

[Koen Kooi]

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Richard Purdie schreef:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, 2007-08-11 at 12:20 +0200, pHilipp Zabel wrote:
>> Ah, great. I guessed something similar would have to exist, as the process would
>> be pretty much the same as for usual -dbg packages, right?
> 
> Yes, its exactly the same.
> 
>> I was just wondering because most of the packages that explicitly set
>> the PACKAGES variable in OE overwrite it completely, thus disabling
>> -dev and -dbg.
> 
> They shouldn't do that.
> 
>> The code you speak of is not enabled for OE.dev as far as I can see,
>> for example all angstrom -dbg task packages have the same dependencies
>> as the main ones.
>> How can I enable this?
> 
> It looks to be enabled already in OE.dev:
> 
> DEPCHAIN_POST = "-dbg -dev" in bitbake.conf
> 
>> Yes, and in a few places PACKAGE_ARCH is set to "${MACHINE_ARCH}" although
>> it should be kept at "all" and only some subpackages should be marked
>> as machine specific. I think "all" is a sane default.
> 
> I'm not 100% sure. Would debian renaming work differently on different
> ARCHS for example?
> 
>> Now my question is, do you, too, like the idea of introducing another
>> bbclass for those defaults? :)
> 
> I'm not agsinst it but I'm not sure I see the point for a file that will
> be two lines long. How much code do we have for it?
> 
>> I guess it should to something like
>> PACKAGES = "${PN} ${PN}-dbg ${PN}-dev" or not touch packages at all,
>> if the code also works for -doc and -locale and enable that code,
>> however it is done.
> 
> PACKAGES shouldn't need touching. Empty -doc and -locale packages won't
> get created.

Even with ALLOW_EMPTY="1"?


regards,

Koen
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