On Fri, 2017-01-06 at 08:34 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > in a fit of silliness, i created some packagegroup recipes and, > without thinking, had the string "OE" as part of the recipe file name, > and was baffled when i kept getting errors that trying to add that > packagegroup to my image was failing due to an "empty" package. > > it was doubly mystifying since i had been using wind river linux > where the packagegroup names contained the string "WRL" and that > worked just fine. changing the "OE" to "oe" appears to have solved the > problem. > > thoughts? why "WRL" worked with wind river linux, and "OE" failed > with a poky build? i don't plan on making that mistake again.
I think this depends on the package format used - AFAIR rpm allows capital letters in package names, whereas ipk and deb don't. Cheers, A. -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core