[oe] What does PACKAGES_DYNAMIC do?

Chris Larson clarson at kergoth.com
Tue Mar 8 16:15:38 UTC 2011


On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 7:47 PM, Charles Manning <cdhmanning at gmail.com> wrote:
> What is the rationale behind PACKAGES_DYNAMIC.
>
> I tried to RTFM, but that's in one of the Todo sections :-(.

It informs bitbake about the emission of binary packages when we don't
know what packages will be emitted until runtime (e.g. the locale
packages, kernel modules, etc.  Note kernel.bbclass sets
PACKAGES_DYNAMIC += "kernel-module-*").
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Christopher Larson
clarson at kergoth dot com
Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
Maintainer - Tslib
Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics




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