From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mga03.intel.com ([143.182.124.21]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SoG6H-0005ui-Ol for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Mon, 09 Jul 2012 17:42:13 +0200 Received: from azsmga001.ch.intel.com ([10.2.17.19]) by azsmga101.ch.intel.com with ESMTP; 09 Jul 2012 08:30:43 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.71,315,1320652800"; d="scan'208";a="165804832" Received: from unknown (HELO helios.localnet) ([10.252.120.244]) by azsmga001.ch.intel.com with ESMTP; 09 Jul 2012 08:30:43 -0700 From: Paul Eggleton To: "Robert P. J. Day" Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2012 16:30:41 +0100 Message-ID: <1803032.sCdKSRoOHk@helios> Organization: Intel Corporation User-Agent: KMail/4.8.4 (Linux/3.2.0-26-generic-pae; KDE/4.8.4; i686; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org Subject: Re: setting EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES explicitly in .bb file can screw things up 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: Mon, 09 Jul 2012 15:42:14 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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 -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre