Re: [OE-core] why does EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES += "ptest-pkgs" not install *all* ptest pkgs?

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

On Mon, 2024-09-02 at 06:39 -0400, Robert P. J. Day via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> 
>   i'm sure i've overlooked something silly, but in building a
> qemuarm64 image to demo ptest to some colleagues, poky by default sets
> the "ptest" DISTRO_FEATURES setting so all of the corresponding ptest
> packages are *built*, but when adding:
> 
>   EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES += "ptest-pkgs"
> 
> only *some* of the ptest packages are added to the image. eg: while
> bzip2-ptest is built, it is not added to the image, as are a number of
> other ptest packages. if i *explicitly* add that package, then it gets
> included.
> 
>   is there some obvious reason that a number of ptest packages are not
> included in the resulting image, despite them being built?

In your example, was bzip2 actually in your image or was it only built?

I suspect it only installs ptests for things actually in the image.

Cheers,

Richard