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From: Haris Okanovic <haris.okanovic@ni.com>
To: "Burton, Ross" <ross.burton@intel.com>
Cc: OE-core <openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tzdata: Make /etc/timezone optional
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 13:03:17 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <568C1375.6080706@ni.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJTo0LaHTkODDiLfOYDQoFC-VBDD5h4XctAidjzRfyYGgdAfKA@mail.gmail.com>

On 01/05/2016 07:03 AM, Burton, Ross wrote:
>
> On 23 December 2015 at 23:51, Haris Okanovic <haris.okanovic@ni.com
> <mailto:haris.okanovic@ni.com>> wrote:
>
>     +CONFFILES_${PN} +=
>     "${@['','${sysconfdir}/timezone'][d.getVar('INSTALL_TIMEZONE_FILE',
>     True) == '1']}"
>
>
> This idiom (indexing an array by a coerced boolean) is pretty difficult
> to read and bitbake has a helper function to turn a string into a bool,
> so I find something like this a lot easier to read:
>
> ${@"${sysconfdir}/timezone" if
> bb.utils.to_boolean(d.getVar("INSTALL_TIMEZONE_FILE", True)) else ""}
>
> (untested!)

I agree the alternative is much easier to read, and verified it works as 
expected. Posting V2 shortly.

Thanks for looking into it!

-- Haris


  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-05 19:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-23 23:51 [PATCH] tzdata: Make /etc/timezone optional Haris Okanovic
2016-01-05 13:03 ` Burton, Ross
2016-01-05 19:03   ` Haris Okanovic [this message]
2016-01-05 19:04   ` [PATCH v2] " Haris Okanovic
2016-01-12  4:03     ` Andre McCurdy
2016-01-12 10:24       ` Burton, Ross
2016-01-12 16:25         ` Haris Okanovic

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