From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-ob0-f175.google.com ([209.85.214.175]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SApsq-0008Hj-HC for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Thu, 22 Mar 2012 22:49:24 +0100 Received: by obqv19 with SMTP id v19so1938182obq.6 for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:40:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:organization :user-agent; bh=hRC/7WHJnlHtSE+M16kbXLBom6FMpNkxzVobOtp46f8=; b=SVN00VWQbsS8ZlKK1d9VUOPxEiMAvo6T0VKBIB7rJBANMcwEpHCxGwWoPL0ETm14Cb FP4clNT3wd4zUPL5+L9UiW4rpMSDtubfmvhAHccioOW2RGmlH5oVZGq1ts05MZ56fmjQ 7pT6iURgIGMtF3hZ98WNkIDW5Pr8bgy1RFLgMI4/Xu7m1iAKl6SiHHUMIYZtlRGAGilH NO6BYaQRaSMgvS6k5USLPDCg2b0LvSctEhuTBZ69RE4z5Ig9Z3Sa7Vhx7rUsQQPIqoxG GJ9AGvA8dmWt8RID2zQIGM9AXNNeHvMCl5nBF8b2EFIEtJtJDjoiFv5VJ3kP2zO9O2WK Dw2Q== Received: by 10.182.1.2 with SMTP id 2mr11737931obi.58.1332452428615; Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:40:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bill-the-cat (ip68-230-54-74.ph.ph.cox.net. [68.230.54.74]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id o9sm5091877obd.21.2012.03.22.14.40.26 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:40:27 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:40:28 -0700 From: Tom Rini To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer Message-ID: <20120322214028.GD28378@bill-the-cat> References: <04FC93EF-7089-4EAD-8C1D-14824C8CBB02@dominion.thruhere.net> <20120312202524.GB9300@denix.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20120312202524.GB9300@denix.org> Organization: Texas Instruments User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Subject: Re: Consistency and use cases for IMAGE_FSTYPES 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: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:49:24 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 04:25:24PM -0400, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote: > On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 07:29:20AM +0100, Koen Kooi wrote: > > > > Op 9 mrt. 2012, om 22:39 heeft Tom Rini het volgende geschreven: > > > > > Hey all, > > > > > > Over in meta-ti I kicked off a discussion > > > (https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/meta-ti/2012-March/000779.html) > > > about if we should be using '?=' or '+=' with IMAGE_FSTYPES in the > > > machine conf files. This has been discussed a little bit before > > > (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.handhelds.openembedded.core/2060/focus=2061). > > > The problem is we have the following and I believe ultimately > > > conflicting use cases: > > > - The machine needs to say 'I need or support the following formats' > > > - The distro needs to say 'I always want format X' > > > - The user needs to say 'I know best, give me only format X' > > > - The user needs to say 'I know best, give me what you support + X' > > > > > > We achieve this today, but not very nicely. For the last one you need > > > to start playing order of operations games and that's just not nice. > > > My suggestion is that we need to change what the machine.conf sets to > > > another variable (SOMETHING_IMAGE_FSTYPES), and a default > > > IMAGE_FSTYPES becomes ?= ${SOMETHING_IMAGE_FSTYPES}. Distros, and > > > users can then work more easily with their use cases. Comments? > > > > EXTRA_IMAGE_FSTYPES! > > +1 > > MACHINE_IMAGE_FSTYPES + DISTRO_IMAGE_FSTYPES? jk :) Having gotten no other feedback (*cough*) I'll post a patch for SOMETHING_IMAGE_FSTYPES (I'm leaning MACHINE_IMAGE_FSTYPES, sorry Koen :)) sometime tomorrow I think. -- Tom