Re: [RFC] Identifying image recipes

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

On Thu, 2015-04-02 at 13:08 +0000, Barros Pena, Belen wrote:
> A couple of weeks ago I ran an informal round of usability testing with
> the new Toaster build functionality. One of the major issues that surfaced
> was how difficult it is to identify the image recipes you can build, in
> between the massive list of recipes coming from the OpenEmbedded metadata
> index. It is important that the image recipes are easy to spot because
> those are likely to be the first point of interest for Toaster users.
> 
> The problem, as far as my understanding goes, is that there is no way in
> the OpenEmbedded metadata to tell those apart from other recipes. We could
> try and filter image recipes based on the image name (they often contain
> the string '-image-'), but that would not be completely accurate.
> 
> My question is: would it be possible to introduce a variable to identify
> image recipes, I don't know, something like IMAGE_RECIPE = '1' or 'yes'
> (just a wild example), that could be included in recipe files to tell
> image recipes apart from standard software recipes, and that we could use
> in Toaster to filter the recipe list? Is it worth proposing this to
> OpenEmbedded, or there is no chance we'll get something like this through?

As Chris mentions, seeing if a recipe inherits the image class would
likely be the best approach.

Cheers,

Richard