Re: [jethro] Backport proposal

[akuster808 <akuster808@gmail.com>]

On 2/24/16 11:50 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> Hello folks
>
> [Cced Robert Yang]
>
> I would like to propuse the backport of following changes:


Seems responsible to me.

- armin
>
> Author: Mariano Lopez <mariano.lopez@linux.intel.com>
> Date:   Wed Dec 30 06:52:54 2015 +0000
>
>     image_types.bbclass: Rebuild when WICVARS change
>
>     The procces to do a wic image is to save a file with
>     variables required by wic and then call wic using this
>     file. Because this is external to bitbake if the vars
>     change, the image won't be rebuild; an example of such
>     is IMAGE_BOOT_FILES.
>
>     This patch adds these variables to vardeps of do_rootfs
>     when a wic image is build. This will rebuild the image
>     if a variable needed by wic changes.
>
>     [YOCTO #8693]
>
>     Signed-off-by: Mariano Lopez <mariano.lopez@linux.intel.com>
>     Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@intel.com>
>     (cherry picked from commit 12c54d50ed4c321dc272beb3c6cb770965c979f1)
>
> Author: Christopher Larson <chris_larson@mentor.com>
> Date:   Tue Nov 10 14:18:20 2015 -0700
>
>     image_types: improve wks path specification
>
>     Hardcoding a full input path with zero flexibility goes against
> everything the
>     Yocto Project is about. Rework it to let the user specify the wks base
>     filename with WKS_FILE and it'll search the layers for the wks file and use
>     it.
>
>     Signed-off-by: Christopher Larson <chris_larson@mentor.com>
>     Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@intel.com>
>     (cherry picked from commit 8cc7f5229f5447c2183ac319dd52c7ed737ec89b)
>
> Those improve the 'wic' image support on Jethro and are merged into
> master for a while. Could those be backported?
>