It has been passed a while since I talked to RP about a bitbake's behaviour that I'd love to have. That day he said to me to send a mail to here starting a discussion about it, so here I am...
I know that bitbake intend to be complete flexible and independent of OpenEmbedded and I definitely agree that when you order $ bitbake package_x you want the package_x package, but sometimes you really need the rdepends packages built too. It is so painfull when you are building a package x that has 30 other rdepends and you need to test the package x. We are using a workaround with a meta package that add do_package_write function for all rdepends, but it is still painfull when you are building and testing a specific package and you don't want to rebuild all meta-package.... What I'd like to have is a bitbake command line option that says to execute all operations, or something like that. so we could use $bitbake package_x # when we want just the package_x package and $bitbake --build-rdepends package_x # that would include the do_package_write and everything else or $bitbake --do-everything-for package_x # trying to think in a generic and flexible name any comments? Best Regards, -- Rodrigo Vivi INdT - Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia Blog: http://blog.vivi.eng.br GPG: 0x905BE242 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net _______________________________________________ Bitbake-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bitbake-dev
