[oe] {RFC] console-image.bb

Michael 'Mickey' Lauer mickey at vanille-media.de
Sat Jan 30 12:24:11 UTC 2010


Am Samstag, den 30.01.2010, 11:53 +0100 schrieb Frans Meulenbroeks:
> 2010/1/30 Rolf Leggewie <no2spam at nospam.arcornews.de>:
> > Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
> >> Wouldn't it be cleaner to rename ANGSTROM_EXTRA_INSTALL to e.g.
> >> DISTRO_EXTRA_INSTALL ?
> >
> > This has been discussed before, but not changed.  I think it made sense
> > back then and I think it makes sense now.
> >
> > I believe there is even a better name than DISTRO_EXTRA_INSTALL to be
> > found for the variable.  Maybe IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL?
> >
> Actually mistyped tye filename, it was console-base-image.bb
> and in the beginning it says that it is an angstrom bootstrap image,
> so having angstrom specific env vars in it makes sense, but guess the
> name then should be angstrom-console-base-image.bb, just like other
> images are prefixed with openmoko, nylon, opie, slugos and whatever

Well, it used to be an angstrom recipe, but (as with many other angstrom
recipes...) it is very useful for other distros as well, so it has bgeen
renamed some time ago. 

A natural consequence of it being so versatile would be to change the
ANGSTROM_ vars to DISTRO_, so that would get my vote.

Cheers,

-- 
:M:





More information about the Openembedded-devel mailing list