the weirdness of bbappend'ing to stock OE images

the weirdness of bbappend'ing to stock OE images

[Robert P. J. Day]

  more a style issue than anything else, but one of the other oddities
in this layer i've been handed is the bbappending to standard OE
images, so that recipes-core/images/ contains recipe files like:

  core-image-minimal.bbappend
  core-image-minimal-dev.bbappend

and so on. that just creeps me out -- my plan is to forcefully advise
people to leave the stock images alone, and create clearly internal,
proprietary ones, like:

  acme-core-image-minimal.bb

that inherit or include, then do the adjusting.

  or is that approach considered acceptable? (it just makes me cringe,
personally.)

rday

Re: [OE-core] the weirdness of bbappend'ing to stock OE images

[Andre McCurdy]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 12:50 PM Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>
>
>   more a style issue than anything else, but one of the other oddities
> in this layer i've been handed is the bbappending to standard OE
> images, so that recipes-core/images/ contains recipe files like:
>
>   core-image-minimal.bbappend
>   core-image-minimal-dev.bbappend
>
> and so on. that just creeps me out -- my plan is to forcefully advise
> people to leave the stock images alone, and create clearly internal,
> proprietary ones, like:
>
>   acme-core-image-minimal.bb

A clearly internal proprietary image would remove the reference to
oe-core from the image name, so "acme-image-minimal.bb" rather than
"acme-core-image-minimal.bb".

> that inherit or include, then do the adjusting.
>
>   or is that approach considered acceptable? (it just makes me cringe,
> personally.)

I don't know. Adding to the core images doesn't seem like the worst
thing someone could do. After all, it's normal to add to or modify the
package groups which go into the core images (either directly or
indirectly by changing distro features).

Creating your own dedicated images is cleaner and clearer though.

> rday
>
> 
>

Re: [OE-core] the weirdness of bbappend'ing to stock OE images

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 22 Mar 2021, Andre McCurdy wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 12:50 PM Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> >
> >   more a style issue than anything else, but one of the other
> > oddities in this layer i've been handed is the bbappending to
> > standard OE images, so that recipes-core/images/ contains recipe
> > files like:
> >
> >   core-image-minimal.bbappend
> >   core-image-minimal-dev.bbappend
> >
> > and so on. that just creeps me out -- my plan is to forcefully
> > advise people to leave the stock images alone, and create clearly
> > internal, proprietary ones, like:
> >
> >   acme-core-image-minimal.bb
>
> A clearly internal proprietary image would remove the reference to
> oe-core from the image name, so "acme-image-minimal.bb" rather than
> "acme-core-image-minimal.bb".

  ah, quite so, that would be better.

> > that inherit or include, then do the adjusting.
> >
> >   or is that approach considered acceptable? (it just makes me cringe,
> > personally.)
>
> I don't know. Adding to the core images doesn't seem like the worst
> thing someone could do. After all, it's normal to add to or modify
> the package groups which go into the core images (either directly or
> indirectly by changing distro features).
>
> Creating your own dedicated images is cleaner and clearer though.

  my view is that i like to leave the stock images as they are for
testing purposes -- if the proprietary image has problems, you always
have a stock image to use as a baseline for testing. so that's being
added to my list of "please don't do stuff like that."

  more weirdness coming shortly ...

rday