On Friday 26 August 2011 17:39:09 Paul Eggleton wrote: > On Friday 26 August 2011 17:18:15 Saul Wold wrote: > > On 08/26/2011 02:47 AM, Paul Eggleton wrote: > > > meta/recipes-extended/images/core-image-basic.bb > > > > This image should NOT contain any X11, this is supposed to be an > > extention of core-image-minimal with many of the busybox related > > commands substituted for the real command set. The intention of this > > image is two fold, first it's the largest image that we test against > > non-GPLv3 and it's the non-graphical LSB image (I am not sure if there > > is a spec test defined for that. > > Hmm, I'm not sure what I was thinking earlier, you're right it doesn't > appear to have X.
Now I know why I thought this. Because task-core.bb defines task packages that depend on X applications, any recipe that inherits from core-image will force a build of all of the X apps even if it doesn't intend to use them - so both core-image-basic and core-image-base suffer from this. This is not really very good and I think we ought to be splitting up task-core to avoid this. FYI whilst core-image-minimal inherits from core-image it overrides IMAGE_INSTALL and thus doesn't use anything from task-core and therefore does not have this issue. > I can't access the LSB specs website right now > unfortunately but does this have an official name within LSB? It's not > "LSB-Core" is it? Yep, it's LSB-Core (yet another meaning of "core", sigh...) > > > Then, we have core-image-base, which whilst it doesn't remove package > > > management files, does not have "package-management" in its features, > > > so it's not a whole lot different to core-image-minimal AFAICT. > > > > On this one I might agree, I know that we have not built that image, nor > > does it seem to be used by anything else. > > If there's demand for a minimal image with package management (someone > asked for this on IRC just the other day, and it makes sense to me at > least) then that's what I'd suggest turning this into. In which case it > ought to be called core-image-minimal-pkgmgmt or something similar. Any opinions on this one? Cheers, Paul -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
