From: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: setting EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES explicitly in .bb file can screw things up
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2012 16:30:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1803032.sCdKSRoOHk@helios> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1207091120520.1353@oneiric>
On Monday 09 July 2012 11:24:27 Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Jul 2012, Andrei Gherzan wrote:
> > So IMHO the EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES variable in the image should be
> > merged in the IMAGE_FEATURES above. I don't see the meaning of it.
>
> yup, that was precisely the point i was making. so given the
> potential for confusion, what should be the "best practise" here?
> based on my sketchy understanding, it seems the proper approach would
> be to let recipe files use IMAGE_FEATURES exclusively, while
> specifically reserving EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES for the developer's
> local.conf file, and avoid the current unpleasant mixing.
Sounds like a good idea to me.
Cheers,
Paul
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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-09 15:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-07 18:52 setting EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES explicitly in .bb file can screw things up Robert P. J. Day
2012-07-08 18:06 ` Robert P. J. Day
2012-07-09 8:59 ` Andrei Gherzan
2012-07-09 15:24 ` Robert P. J. Day
2012-07-09 15:30 ` Paul Eggleton [this message]
2012-07-09 16:25 ` Robert P. J. Day
2012-07-09 20:32 ` Andrei Gherzan
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