On Mon, 2012-03-26 at 12:42 -0700, Rudolf Streif wrote: > Another variable that seems to be dropped from the latest 1.1.1 > revision of the Reference Manual is BBMASK. In previous versions of > the manual it was explained that this variable can be used to remove > packages from images. However, that did not work for me and it did not > surprise me either.
BBMASK removes recipes from being parsed. It does not remove them from images although that would I guess be an indirect result since you could no longer build them. > To include a package with an image you will have to make it a > dependency of that image. If you then hide the recipe of the package > using BBMASK then you are breaking the dependency and the Bitbake will > complain with "Nothing provides <package>" because the dependency is > still there. > > I could not think of any other use case for BBMASK in the way it is > implemented. Are there any? Its designed so that if you for example didn't care out any *gpe* recipe, you could exclude them entirely and not even have the parse overhead. Its less useful now things are split into layers but nonetheless still valid syntax. Cheers, Richard _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
