Re: [PATCH] image.bbclass: Allow creation of meta-packages for images

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, 2013-12-11 at 15:46 +0100, David Nyström wrote:
> No packages were created for core-image-minimal et.c. which
> is a known top level interface for Yocto/OE users.
> 
> When installing from a repo, it would be good if these interfaces
> were common. If not, users are left with
> packagegroup-core-*, which names are not always easy to parse.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Nyström <david.nystrom@enea.com>
> ---
>  meta/classes/image.bbclass | 12 ++++--------
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

I'm not sure we can do this since there isn't one magic package group
which represents a given image. The problem is it needs to account for
IMAGE_FEATURES as well and I think this could end up confusing users
more than helping them.

Cheers,

Richard

> diff --git a/meta/classes/image.bbclass b/meta/classes/image.bbclass
> index cc65e35..e875b8a 100644
> --- a/meta/classes/image.bbclass
> +++ b/meta/classes/image.bbclass
> @@ -8,11 +8,12 @@ POPULATE_SDK_POST_TARGET_COMMAND += "rootfs_install_complementary populate_sdk;
>  
>  inherit gzipnative
>  
> +ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN} = "1"
> +PACKAGES = "${PN}"
>  LICENSE = "MIT"
> -PACKAGES = ""
>  DEPENDS += "${MLPREFIX}qemuwrapper-cross ${MLPREFIX}depmodwrapper-cross"
> -RDEPENDS += "${PACKAGE_INSTALL} ${LINGUAS_INSTALL}"
> -RRECOMMENDS += "${PACKAGE_INSTALL_ATTEMPTONLY}"
> +RDEPENDS_${PN} += "${PACKAGE_INSTALL} ${LINGUAS_INSTALL}"
> +RRECOMMENDS_${PN} += "${PACKAGE_INSTALL_ATTEMPTONLY}"
>  
>  INHIBIT_DEFAULT_DEPS = "1"
>  
> @@ -659,11 +660,6 @@ do_configure[noexec] = "1"
>  do_compile[noexec] = "1"
>  do_install[noexec] = "1"
>  do_populate_sysroot[noexec] = "1"
> -do_package[noexec] = "1"
> -do_packagedata[noexec] = "1"
> -do_package_write_ipk[noexec] = "1"
> -do_package_write_deb[noexec] = "1"
> -do_package_write_rpm[noexec] = "1"
>  
>  addtask rootfs before do_build
>  # Allow the kernel to be repacked with the initramfs and boot image file as a single file