On 01/02/18 09:12 AM, Burton, Ross wrote:
On 1 February 2018 at 14:10, Daniel F. Dickinson <csho...@thecshore.com
<mailto:csho...@thecshore.com>> wrote:
On 01/02/18 08:54 AM, Burton, Ross wrote:
On 1 February 2018 at 13:44, Daniel F. Dickinson
<csho...@thecshore.com <mailto:csho...@thecshore.com>
<mailto:csho...@thecshore.com <mailto:csho...@thecshore.com>>>
wrote:
I guess the question is would it be useful to have a flag
that chooses
a 'typical' tinyness but can be overridden (I'm think here of
avoiding having to specify huge numbers of PACKAGECONFIGs for a
typical tiny case, when really you want most of the 'normal'
tinyness with some
tweaks. What I'm think is that "tiny" really should just
change the
defaults for PACKAGECONFIG etc, but like the defaults can
be easily
overridden.
Well in the idiomatic way the default would be "all the things
are on", so doing a "tiny" build would be just setting
PACKAGECONFIG="".
When we're dealing with tiny configurations you can't really say
"and this is what people will want", because that's precisely
the problem: you don't know what someone else will want.
Ross
Fair enough. Is there a way to distribute a set of package configs
and/or package selections (can a packagegroup do packageconfig or
does that need to be specified in a different scope (I'm still
getting used to openembedded)). "tiny" is a bad choice because it's
too generic, but perhaps "meta-tiny-router" "meta-tiny-switch"
"meta-tiny-home-device" etc would make sense as mini-layers that
could take care of sane defaults for different use cases (assuming
the work of splitting packages up more and appropriate tinification
PACKAGECONFIGs are either submitted to the appropriate layer or
bbappended in various layers)?
A distribution can set other recipe's PACKAGECONFIGs directly:
PACKAGECONFIG_pn-recipename = "foo bar"
And distributions are welcome to bundle groups of those into inc files
for the user to pull in as required at the distro level.
Ross
I wonder if it'd be useful to have some .inc's of this variety added and
included (commented out) in the poky-tiny distro default local.conf?
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