On Tue, 2011-10-11 at 15:29 -0700, Joshua Lock wrote: > Folks, > > I'm looking for some comments on this WIP patch. > > The reason I've added this is because the hob GUI requires us to offer much > more reliable metadata - we show the user available packages, as defined by > each recipe, to add to their image. Should a recipe define a package and yet > not actually create it and the user has included that in their image we cause > errors at build time. > > However whilst the idea seems sound enough, there are some caveats - running > a world build with this patch I see failures fairly early on at least a few > of which I'd expect we'll need to special-case: > * eglibc-local > * linux-yocto > * linux-libc-headers > * gcc-runtime
You'd probably get much better results from this patch if you account for ALLOW_EMPTY_<pkgname> btw... Cheers, Richard _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
