[oe] RFC: Kernel image packaging

[Paul Sokolovsky]

Hello Richard,

Wednesday, March 14, 2007, 12:44:08 PM, you wrote:

> Hi,

> The kernel packaging has given various people concern for a while. The
> problem is some devices don't want a kernel binary installed into the
> root filesystem. We can do this at the moment but the kernel doesn't end
> up packaged and we would like those packages to be available even if
> they're not installed by default on a given device.

  Thanks for going for this issue!

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> For a device that doesn't want the kernel in the rootfs, it would simply
> set:

> RDEPENDS_kernel-base = ""

> in the appropriate kernel file. Perhaps the definition below should be
> a ?= and the above could then be set in the machine.conf file.

> Does anyone see a nicer way to handle this or have an alternative?

  I guess this is just the correct solution which handles this setting
where it should be, and doesn't compromise packaging.

> If nobody objects, this will probably get committed at the weekend.

  Hope to see it soon!

> Cheers,

> Richard

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