I opened a bug to track a). storing this information in the toaster database; and b). reporting the information from bitbake to toaster.
https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7571 Cheers, Alex On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 10:12 AM, Barros Pena, Belen < [email protected]> wrote: > > > On 02/04/2015 16:17, "Christopher Larson" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > >On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 6:08 AM, Barros Pena, Belen > ><[email protected]> wrote: > > > >A couple of weeks ago I ran an informal round of usability testing with > >the new Toaster build functionality. One of the major issues that surfaced > >was how difficult it is to identify the image recipes you can build, in > >between the massive list of recipes coming from the OpenEmbedded metadata > >index. It is important that the image recipes are easy to spot because > >those are likely to be the first point of interest for Toaster users. > > > >The problem, as far as my understanding goes, is that there is no way in > >the OpenEmbedded metadata to tell those apart from other recipes. We could > >try and filter image recipes based on the image name (they often contain > >the string '-image-'), but that would not be completely accurate. > > > >My question is: would it be possible to introduce a variable to identify > >image recipes, I don't know, something like IMAGE_RECIPE = '1' or 'yes' > >(just a wild example), that could be included in recipe files to tell > >image recipes apart from standard software recipes, and that we could use > >in Toaster to filter the recipe list? Is it worth proposing this to > >OpenEmbedded, or there is no chance we'll get something like this through? > > > > > > > > > > > >I highly doubt anyone would be a fan of this, though admittedly it'd have > >little impact on recipe writers, as you could shove it into the image > >class rather than the recipes themselves. That said, I haven't read > >toaster's code, yet, but if it actually parses > > the recipes rather than just examining the files, you can check to see > >if they inherit the image class. > > So there is a way to tell them apart :) Thanks! I'll check with the > development team to see what can be done. > > Cheers > > Belén > > > >-- > >Christopher Larson > >clarson at kergoth dot com > >Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus > >Maintainer - Tslib > >Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics > > > > > > -- > _______________________________________________ > toaster mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/toaster > -- Alex Damian Yocto Project SSG / OTC
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