Re: what is "packagegroup-core-nfs-server"?

[Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>]

On Wednesday 28 November 2012 08:55:59 Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   and to finalize the confusion, there's this from
> meta/classes/image.bbclass:
> 
> # IMAGE_FEATURES may contain any available package group
> 
> which would appear to be untrue at this point.  

I'm pretty sure this has never been true. We should just remove that comment.

> i think a better way to approach this would be to discuss the possible types
> of entries you might find in IMAGE_FEATURES, which appear to be:
> 
> * actual package groups
> * individual recipes(?)

I don't think this is the way to explain it. They can be values defined as 
PACKAGE_GROUP_valuename (in which you can specify one or more packages to be 
installed when the feature is enabled - where the packages could be any kind 
of runtime package including packagegroups). The term "recipe" should be 
avoided here.

> * values processed totally independently by other recipes that are
> neither package groups nor recipes (eg, "read-only-rootfs")

True. FWIW, this aspect is along the same lines as how DISTRO_FEATURES, 
MACHINE_FEATURES etc. are handled - we check for values contained in them in 
the places in the metadata where we need to be conditional upon those values.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre