> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] <openembedded-
> [email protected]> On Behalf Of Otavio Salvador
> Sent: den 19 november 2018 20:22
> To: Tom Rini <[email protected]>
> Cc: Marek Vasut <[email protected]>; [email protected];
> Alexey Brodkin <[email protected]>; Otavio Salvador
> <[email protected]>; Patches and discussions about the oe-core
> layer <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [OE-core] [PATCH v3] u-boot: Add mkenvimage tool
>
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 5:08 PM Tom Rini <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 01:51:41PM +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > > On 11/19/2018 11:04 AM, Alexey Brodkin wrote:
> > > > This utility is used for creation of images containing
> > > > usable in run-time U-Boot environment.
> > > >
> > > > As of today this utility is added per-board like here [1]
> > > > for Intel Edison board.
> > > >
> > > > [1] http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-intel-
> edison/tree/meta-intel-edison-bsp/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-
> tools_2014.04.bb
> > > >
> > > > Given there're quite some U-Boot tools that we may want to add
> later
> > > > this recipe name switch from "u-boot-mkimage" to generic "u-boot-
> tools"
> > > > still for compatibility we provide "u-boot-mkimage" with help
> > > > of PROVIDES as well as proposed "u-boot-mkenvimage".
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <[email protected]>
> > > > Cc: Richard Purdie <[email protected]>
> > > > Cc: Otavio Salvador <[email protected]>
> > > > Cc: Martin Jansa <[email protected]>
> > > > Cc: Ross Burton <[email protected]>
> > > > Cc: Marek Vasut <[email protected]>
> > >
> > > Do we want to generate one package per tool or not ?
> >
> > I think so, yes. Not all places will want all tools.
>
> And a bonus to add a u-boot-tools-meta which rdepends on all. You can
> copy code to do that from gstreamer-plugins packages.
Actually, why mess with an unnecessary meta package. Just use the
empty ${PN} package for that. That works for the GStreamer packages
as well these days (since commit 8e1009a3), even though they do it
by depending on the meta packages for backwards compatibility.
//Peter
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