[oe] more info in layerindex Was: Full Python3 Installation

Koen Kooi koen at dominion.thruhere.net
Mon Apr 24 20:11:30 UTC 2017


Op 24-04-17 om 18:12 schreef Trevor Woerner:
> On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 2:53 PM, Paul Eggleton
> <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>> Regarding the layer index, we don't actually index packages or anything on the
>> runtime side, since you would have to actually run a build to get full
>> information there, and it can easily change depending on configuration. It's
>> possible we may add that in future but we'd have to ensure everyone understood
>> those limitations that mean that the information might not directly match what
>> they see when they do a build locally.
> 
> 
> As for knowing what files will go where I can see that you could only
> really know that once a recipe is built (since the FILES_..._${PN}
> allows wildcards). But as for the list of packages created by a
> recipe, isn't that deterministic from looking at the (full) recipe
> information (including inherits etc)?

Not completely, anything with do_split_packages will not give a full list
(e.g. gst-plugin*.bb, kernels)

regards,

koen





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