Re: recipe removing (some)contents of /etc

From: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>
To: "Smith, Virgil" <Virgil.Smith@flir.com>,
	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Cc: yocto@yoctoproject.org
Subject: Re: recipe removing (some)contents of /etc
Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 17:41:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1622249.AcBk4fCPKl@peggleto-mobl.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F14AEF751653024287138321000C846AF4821E78@BOS-DAG1.zone1.flir.net>

On Thursday 14 May 2015 16:34:56 Smith, Virgil wrote:
> > > Change
> > > IMAGE_INSTALL += “canlogger”
> > > to
> > > IMAGE_INSTALL_append = “ canlogger”
> > > or possibly better
> > > EXTRA_IMAGE_INSTALL_append = “ canlogger”
> >
> >
> >
> >   if you're putting this in local.conf, i'm pretty sure the preferred
> >   syntax is just:
> EXTRA_IMAGE_INSTALL = "canlogger"
> 
> 
> Yes, I think rday is correct and the intended purpose of EXTRA_IMAGE_INSTALL
> is to be used entirely from local.conf and thereby avoid the += vs ?= vs
> _append issues I mentioned.  At least EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES is listed this
> way in the Yocto manual.

There's no such thing as EXTRA_IMAGE_INSTALL, not in the core system anyway. 
There is CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL though which you can add to with += (since 
there aren't any default items in it, unlike IMAGE_INSTALL).

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre