From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from tim.rpsys.net (93-97-173-237.zone5.bethere.co.uk [93.97.173.237]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF681E0059A for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 05:47:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tim.rpsys.net (8.13.6/8.13.8) with ESMTP id q2TCllFd031362; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:47:47 +0100 Received: from tim.rpsys.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (tim.rpsys.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 31242-01; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:47:43 +0100 (BST) Received: from [192.168.3.10] ([192.168.3.10]) (authenticated bits=0) by tim.rpsys.net (8.13.6/8.13.8) with ESMTP id q2TClarm031356 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:47:38 +0100 Message-ID: <1333025256.14983.29.camel@ted> From: Richard Purdie To: Rudolf Streif , "Rifenbark, Scott M" Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:47:36 +0100 In-Reply-To: References: <1332589972.27577.1.camel@ted> <41DEA4B02DBDEF40A0F3B6D0DDB1237945175E22@ORSMSX101.amr.corp.intel.com> <1332802684.28414.146.camel@ted> X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.2- Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at rpsys.net Cc: yocto@yoctoproject.org Subject: Re: tentative list of vars to be dropped from variable glossary X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:47:54 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Mon, 2012-03-26 at 16:50 -0700, Rudolf Streif wrote: > Thanks, Richard. Clearer now but not entirely. > > > > >> BBMASK removes recipes from being parsed. It does not > remove them from > >> images although that would I guess be an indirect result > since you could > >>no longer build them. > > > Yes, it removes it from being parsed. I used, for test although not > sensible, BBMASK = "base-passwd". If I then tried building > core-image-minimal it fails with "Nothing provides base-passwd". If > one could use BBMASK to customize images as suggested > in http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/latest/dev-manual/dev-manual.html#usingpoky-extend-customimage-localconf then one would expect the package to be removed indirectly from the image. However, that does not happen, the build just fails. I hadn't realised Scott had added this to the customising images section of the manual. This is not what its designed for and we need to move this to somewhere less confusing. Scott: This is going to need to move somewhere else in the manual as this is confusing. I'm going to suggest a 4.12 section "Other tips and tricks" which says: """ Sometimes there are groups of recipes you might wish to filter out. If there were recipes you know you're never going to want/use, removing them from parsing would speed up parts of the build for example. It is possible to filter or mask out both .bb and .bbappend files. You can do this by providing an expression with the BBMASK variable. Here is an example: BBMASK = ".*/meta-mymachine/recipes-maybe/" Here, all .bb and .bbappend files in the directory that matches the expression are ignored during the build process. """ Cheers, Richard