From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.chez-thomas.org (mail.mlbassoc.com [65.100.170.105]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D679F75BD3 for ; Sat, 25 Jul 2015 12:26:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix, from userid 1998) id E6A0FF8119A; Sat, 25 Jul 2015 06:26:10 -0600 (MDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on hermes.chez-thomas.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.8 required=10.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, DNS_FROM_AHBL_RHSBL autolearn=no version=3.3.2 Received: from [192.168.1.114] (zeus [192.168.1.114]) by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7121DF81188; Sat, 25 Jul 2015 06:26:10 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <55B38068.6000706@mlbassoc.com> Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2015 06:26:16 -0600 From: Gary Thomas User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org References: <55AE6705.5040907@mlbassoc.com> In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [yocto] Question about IMAGE_INSTALL_append and CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2015 12:26:14 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 2015-07-24 18:37, Khem Raj wrote: > On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 8:36 AM, Gary Thomas wrote: >> On 2015-07-21 09:26, Victor Rodriguez wrote: >>> >>> Hi team >>> >>> I have a question , according to documentation there is a difference >>> between >>> >>> IMAGE_INSTALL_append >>> >>> and >>> >>> CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL >>> >>> Specifies the list of packages to be added to the image. You should >>> only set this variable in the local.conf configuration file found in >>> the Build Directory. >>> >>> When I use the second one and try to build a core-image-minimal-xfce >>> bitbake does not install what I wanted in my image . I had a really >>> hard time few weekends ago because of this. >>> >>> I wonder If I am missing something or if this is a bug >> >> >> The core-image-minimal-xfce recipe does not "play nice" with >> the core-image class and is not respecting CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL. > > > its not required to. Maybe it's not required, but since that is the recommended way to add packages to an image, it probably should. As you can see from the original question, the non-standard behaviour is confusing, certainly to new users. It would only take a little reorganization to make it work as expected. > >> >> I think this should be filed as a bug (and feel free to suggest a patch) >> > > No. Its not OE-Core or yocto bug > >> BTW, this question should really be on the OpenEmbedded development list. > > its valid for meta-xfce only. -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | Consulting for the MLB Associates | Embedded world ------------------------------------------------------------