On Sun, 17 Nov 2013, Paul Eggleton wrote: > Hi Robert, > > On Sunday 17 November 2013 04:19:19 Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > think i may have asked this once upon a time, but why, in > > core-image.bbclass, is there the line: > > > > PACKAGE_GROUP_package-management = "${ROOTFS_PKGMANAGE}" > > > > as i read it, package-management doesn't represent an actual > > package group, but rather represents one of a number of > > IMAGE_FEATURES that are processed explicitly in a .bbclass file, > > like "debug-tweaks" or "read-only-rootfs". so what does the above > > line mean? > > It's not a package group, but then neither are any of the things > defined by PACKAGE_GROUP - that variable just specifies one or more > packages to be installed when the specified item appears in > IMAGE_FEATURES. Perhaps we should just rename the variable; it's a > little more internal than some of the other variables we've renamed > in the past.
oh, i realize it's not a package group, my point was that that line seems entirely superfluous since, as with things like "debug-tweaks" and "read-only-rootfs", that "image feature" is processed explicitly within image.bbclass: # IMAGE_FEATURES may contain any available package group IMAGE_FEATURES ?= "" IMAGE_FEATURES[type] = "list" IMAGE_FEATURES[validitems] += "debug-tweaks read-only-rootfs package-management" # rootfs bootstrap install ROOTFS_BOOTSTRAP_INSTALL = "${@base_contains("IMAGE_FEATURES", "package-management", "", "${ROOTFS_PKGMANAGE_BOOTSTRAP}",d)}" the simple solution would seem to be to just delete the line: PACKAGE_GROUP_package-management = "${ROOTFS_PKGMANAGE}" from core-image.bbclass since it's both unnecessary and misleading. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto