[oe] feasibility of "excluding" packages from a task?

[Koen Kooi]

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On 29-07-10 14:23, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   not wanting to jump into the main debate, but what is the
> feasibility of somehow "excluding" a package or two from a task you're
> trying to build?  as i'm sure you're tired of hearing, most of the
> time when i try to build a task, it's typically one or two packages
> that don't build that cause the whole thing to fail.
> 
>   so would it be hard to add an "exclude" option to bitbake that would
> allow one to, say:
> 
>   $ bitbake -x gnash beagleboard-demo-image
> 
> there would clearly have to be some dependency processing which might
> require yet other packages to be excluded, etc, etc.
> 
>   and if one had already attempted the initial build, the exclude
> specifier would require bitbake to go back and remove any trace of the
> broken package so it didn't try to still get dragged in when trying to
> build the final task image.  or something like that.
> 
>   has this ever been proposed?  would it be hard?  it would certainly
> be a temporary solution to lots of failed builds.

Yes, making builds non-deterministic is an excellent idea!

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