Hi Richard,

I like this change. However, it causes problem of 'rm_work'.
Now some native recipes don't get cleaned up with 'rm_work' enabled.

e.g.
INHERIT += "rm_work"
bitbake core-image-minimal
A few native recipes don't get clean up such as alsa-lib-native, 
createrepo-c-native, dnf-native, etc.

Do you have any idea how to fix it? Or should we accept the current 
situation?

Regards,
Qi

On 09/20/2021 08:46 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> The 'meta' is old and not very useful. It empties PACKAGES and creates
> recursive do_build dependencies.
>
> We shouldn't need such recursive build dependencies any more so simplify the code.
>
> This does cause behaviour changes as some dependencies are no longer built.
> It did show up issues with qemu-helper-native handling for example but those
> issues look like real races and the underlying dependency chains were not correct.
>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
> ---
>   meta/classes/populate_sdk_base.bbclass | 4 +++-
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/meta/classes/populate_sdk_base.bbclass b/meta/classes/populate_sdk_base.bbclass
> index ccfe2232895..49e166e697d 100644
> --- a/meta/classes/populate_sdk_base.bbclass
> +++ b/meta/classes/populate_sdk_base.bbclass
> @@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
> -inherit meta image-postinst-intercepts image-artifact-names
> +PACKAGES = ""
> +
> +inherit image-postinst-intercepts image-artifact-names
>   
>   # Wildcards specifying complementary packages to install for every package that has been explicitly
>   # installed into the rootfs
>
>
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