From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mga02.intel.com ([134.134.136.20]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SeTlI-0003fO-5s for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Tue, 12 Jun 2012 18:16:08 +0200 Received: from orsmga001.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.18]) by orsmga101.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 12 Jun 2012 09:05:32 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.67,352,1309762800"; d="scan'208";a="151998391" Received: from unknown (HELO helios.localnet) ([10.252.120.143]) by orsmga001.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 12 Jun 2012 09:05:31 -0700 From: Paul Eggleton To: "Robert P. J. Day" Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:05:30 +0100 Message-ID: <1452406.eSFiROSBlj@helios> Organization: Intel Corporation User-Agent: KMail/4.8.3 (Linux/3.2.0-24-generic-pae; KDE/4.8.3; i686; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: <1339487948-30612-1-git-send-email-bogdan.a.marinescu@intel.com> <2704914.5qldZ3P3Ag@helios> MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] strace: update to 4.7 X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 16:16:08 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" On Tuesday 12 June 2012 11:31:59 Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jun 2012, Paul Eggleton wrote: > > Any core-image-* would do e.g. core-image-minimal, and you could just use > > CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL += "strace" in your local.conf to have strace > > installed in the image by default for the purpose of doing this test. > > i remember running across precisely that and being somewhat confused > by how that was described: > > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.handhelds.openembedded.core/18105 > > i still think there's some redundancy involving using both "_EXTRA_" > and "+=" in the same directive. Ultimately it's a variable like any other. Using += works regardless of whether someone has already set it or not and doesn't disturb any existing items if they have. I agree that in our examples we should try to be consistent though. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre