See chapter 4 of the dev manual ( http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/latest/dev-manual/dev-manual.html) for this adjustment.
Scott On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 7:32 AM, Rifenbark, Scott M < scott.m.rifenb...@intel.com> wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Purdie [mailto:richard.pur...@linuxfoundation.org] > Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 6:48 AM > To: Rudolf Streif; Rifenbark, Scott M > Cc: yocto@yoctoproject.org > Subject: Re: [yocto] tentative list of vars to be dropped from variable > glossary > > On Mon, 2012-03-26 at 16:50 -0700, Rudolf Streif wrote: > > Thanks, Richard. Clearer now but not entirely. > > > > > > > > >> 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. > > > > > > Yes, it removes it from being parsed. I used, for test although not > > sensible, BBMASK = "base-passwd". If I then tried building > > core-image-minimal it fails with "Nothing provides base-passwd". If > > one could use BBMASK to customize images as suggested > > in > http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/latest/dev-manual/dev-manual.html#usingpoky-extend-customimage-localconfthen > one would expect the package to be removed indirectly from the image. > However, that does not happen, the build just fails. > > I hadn't realised Scott had added this to the customising images section > of the manual. This is not what its designed for and we need to move > this to somewhere less confusing. > > Scott: This is going to need to move somewhere else in the manual as > this is confusing. I'm going to suggest a 4.12 section "Other tips and > tricks" which says: > > """ > Sometimes there are groups of recipes you might wish to filter out. If > there were recipes you know you're never going to want/use, removing > them from parsing would speed up parts of the build for example. > > It is possible to filter or mask out both .bb and .bbappend files. You > can do this by providing an expression with the BBMASK variable. Here is > an example: > > BBMASK = ".*/meta-mymachine/recipes-maybe/" > > Here, all .bb and .bbappend files in the directory that matches the > expression are ignored during the build process. > """ > > Cheers, > > Richard > > > >
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