Re: [OE-core] [PATCH v3 03/11] kernel.bbclass: add kernel-initrd-modules meta package

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Fri, 2025-04-11 at 09:39 -0400, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> Richard: If you are reading this and get this far, is there any way
> to add some sort of RPROVIDES to a package that is almost a
> wild card ?  I just haven't had time to think it through or
> experiment.
> Rather than the directory listings, if the new initrd kernel module
> meta-package could be constructed (or just the image doing the
> installs) from something like IMAGE_INSTALL += "kernel-essential-
> boot-*'
> and that RPROVIDES was put into the packages when they were
> created .. we'd have the top down control and explicit configuration
> I'm looking for.

I think the package rprovides would have to be unique but you could do
that with kernel-essential-boot-XXX. Installing globs of packages
doesn't work well at the package manager level but we do have support
for things like the dev/dbg/locale globbing (*-dev and friends) at the
image construction level so that much is possible, albeit for a quite
difference usecase atm.

Cheers,

Richard