On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 01:03 -0300, Rodrigo Vivi wrote:
> 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 think this is an issue OE needs to address more than a bitbake problem
but I'll reply here.

>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.
>
> 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.

As of today, "buildall" was added to OE from Poky. To use this you just
run "bitbake xyz -c buildall" and all dependent build tasks will run,
hence it packages everything. Does that solve the problem?

Regards,

Richard

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