[oe] a bit of pedantry about core images

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 11 Jul 2014, Rudolf Streif wrote:

> Hi Robert,
>
>
> >   documenting some stuff about core images and a few quick questions.
> > first, in core-image.bbclass:
> >
> > # By default we install packagegroup-core-boot and packagegroup-base
> > packages - this gives us
> > # working (console only) rootfs.
> >
> >   actualliy, not quite true:
> >
> > CORE_IMAGE_BASE_INSTALL = '\
> >     packagegroup-core-boot \
> >     packagegroup-base-extended \        <------
> >
> > so that comment just needs to be fixed, i can take care of that.
> >

> Kind of. You can look at it either way. packagegroup-base.bb defines
> a whole bunch of package groups that depend on each other.
> packagegroup-base-extended depends on all of them hence adding it to
> an image will add all of them.

  um ... ok, i'll check that, thanks.

> >   next, i've always cringed at this bit of code:
> >
> >   CORE_IMAGE_BASE_INSTALL = '\
> >     packagegroup-core-boot \
> >     packagegroup-base-extended \
> >     \
> >     ${CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL} \
> >     '
> >
> >   CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL ?= ""
> >
> >   IMAGE_INSTALL ?= "${CORE_IMAGE_BASE_INSTALL}"
> >
> > could that not just be written as:
> >
> >   CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL ?= ""
> >
> >   CORE_IMAGE_BASE_INSTALL = '\
> >     packagegroup-core-boot \
> >     packagegroup-base-extended \
> >     '
> >
> >   IMAGE_INSTALL ?= "${CORE_IMAGE_BASE_INSTALL}" ${CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL}
> >
> > Yes, I agree, that is much cleaner but you have to place the quotes
> correctly.

  i realized what i had done the instant i hit "SEND". so ...

IMAGE_INSTALL ?= "\
      ${CORE_IMAGE_BASE_INSTALL} \
      ${CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL} \
      "

does that look right? any objections?

rday

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