, 2012 2:20 AM
To: Rifenbark, Scott M
Cc: Rudolf Streif; yocto@yoctoproject.org
Subject: Re: [yocto] Requesting information on some variables
On Wednesday 17 October 2012 21:07:20 Rifenbark, Scott M wrote:
> Thanks for the added investigation here. The original bug report listed
> COMMON_FEATU
On 18 October 2012 10:33, Burton, Ross wrote:
> A concrete example might help. For example there is a "bluetooth"
> machine feature that means bluez (the bluetooth daemon) is built and
> added to the image, ConnMan enabled bluetooth support, and so on.
I say machine feature, I mean distro featur
On 18 October 2012 10:20, Paul Eggleton wrote:
>> I don't know the relationship between "features" and "packages"... maybe it
>> is a one-to-one relationship.
>
> It's definitely not 1-1, and sometimes a feature doesn't just control the
> installation of a package or packages, but influences how
On Wednesday 17 October 2012 21:07:20 Rifenbark, Scott M wrote:
> Thanks for the added investigation here. The original bug report listed
> COMMON_FEATURES as an undocumented variable. I see, however, that the
> variable referred to by both you and Paul Eggleton is COMBINED_FEATURES. I
> just di
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Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 1:16 PM
To: Rifenbark, Scott M
Cc: yocto@yoctoproject.org
Subject: Re: [yocto] Requesting information on some variables
Scott,
Thanks for addressing this confusing part. The list of DISTRO_FEATURES (D
Scott,
Thanks for addressing this confusing part. The list of DISTRO_FEATURES (DF)
and MACHINE_FEATURES (MF) in the documentation also does not seem to be
complete. For instance, vfat is (at least the code in bitbake.conf that
intersects DF and MF suggests so) is a MF as well as a DF.
It also see
This is helpful... thanks Paul.
-Original Message-
From: Paul Eggleton [mailto:paul.eggle...@linux.intel.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 8:59 AM
To: Rifenbark, Scott M
Cc: yocto@yoctoproject.org
Subject: Re: [yocto] Requesting information on some variables
On Wednesday 17 October
On Wednesday 17 October 2012 15:32:40 Rifenbark, Scott M wrote:
> There is a bug (https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3292)
> stating that we need better documentation describing how DISTRO_FEATURES,
> COMMON_FEATURES, and MACHINE_FEATURES actually affect the build. I don't
> know an
There is a bug (https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3292) stating
that we need better documentation describing how DISTRO_FEATURES,
COMMON_FEATURES, and MACHINE_FEATURES actually affect the build. I don't know
anything about these variables beyond what is in the reference manual:
