[oe] Change ANGSTROM_EXTRA_INSTALL to IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL

Leon Woestenberg leon.woestenberg at gmail.com
Fri May 9 17:22:57 UTC 2008


On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 6:56 PM, Koen Kooi <k.kooi at student.utwente.nl> wrote:
> Philip Balister wrote:
>>
>> I'd like to change the variable used for the user to add packages to a
>> standard image from ANGSTROM_EXTRA_INSTALL to IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL. This
>> is an image property, and not Angstrom specific.
>>
>> Is there anything wrong with this idea?
>
> Yes, since it is intended to put angstrom specific stuff inside the image.
>
Philip proposes to change its naming so that it is intended to put
distro specific stuff inside the image.

Angstrom being a distro, this is the neatest solution for both
OpenEmbedded and Angstrom.

> It is there because it got fed up receiving hate-mail everytime I edited an
> image recipe. Since we seem to have a couple of resident angstrom-haters
> nowadays, I vote for leaving it as-is.
>
The feature of putting some distro dependent stuff in the image
remains, so renaming this should not increase the amount of hate-mail
for anyone.

+1 from me.

Regards,
-- 
Leon




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