[oe] [RFC] A case of distro config overriding DISTRO var

[Paul Sokolovsky]

Hello,

I'd like to know what's the idea behind overriding DISTRO var from the
value being set by user? For example, angstrom.inc does:

DISTRO = "angstrom" 

The problem with is that real distro name is lost, as thus
cannot be passed to some other tool (e.g., bbimage).

If there're good reasons to do that, and we would be lazy enough to
convert to something like: DISTRO_FOO = "${DISTRO}" in bitbake.conf,
and let those good reasons apply to DISTRO_FOO, which must replace
DISTRO in the appropriate places, then I at least propose to do:

DISTRO_ORIGINAL := "${DISTRO}"

in bitbake.conf, so we always have real distro config name handy.


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 Paul                          mailto:pmiscml at gmail.com