On Mon, 22 Mar 2021, Andre McCurdy wrote: > On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 12:50 PM Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@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
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