On Fri, Sep 2, 2022, 9:47 AM Richard Purdie <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, 2022-09-01 at 17:42 -0600, Alejandro Hernandez Samaniego wrote:
> > There could be IMAGE_CLASSES designed to work on images which arent
> > necessarily compatible with baremetal-images, one example is the
> > license_image class which relies on the package managers functionality
> > during do_rootfs, for baremetal images no rootfs is created hence the
> > package manager shouldnt be invoked, we need to avoid inheriting such
> > class to fix this behavior.
> >
> > inherit BAREMETAL_IMAGE_CLASSES for baremetal images but set the default
> > to IMAGE_CLASSES, whilst removing undesired classes in an intermediate
> > step to avoid incompatibilities.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Alejandro Enedino Hernandez Samaniego <
> [email protected]>
> > ---
> >  meta/classes-recipe/baremetal-image.bbclass | 9 ++++++++-
> >  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/meta/classes-recipe/baremetal-image.bbclass
> b/meta/classes-recipe/baremetal-image.bbclass
> > index d3377a92fa..2f07dec4ac 100644
> > --- a/meta/classes-recipe/baremetal-image.bbclass
> > +++ b/meta/classes-recipe/baremetal-image.bbclass
> > @@ -18,8 +18,15 @@
> >  ## Emulate image.bbclass
> >  # Handle inherits of any of the image classes we need
> >  IMAGE_CLASSES ??= ""
> > -IMGCLASSES = " ${IMAGE_CLASSES}"
> > +BAREMETAL_IMAGE_CLASSES ?= " ${IMAGE_CLASSES}"
> > +
> > +# The license_image class relies on package managers used on do_rootfs
> > +# these dont exist for baremetal images since no rootfs is created.
> > +BAREMETAL_IMAGE_CLASSES:remove = "license_image"
> > +
> > +IMGCLASSES = " ${BAREMETAL_IMAGE_CLASSES}"
> >  inherit ${IMGCLASSES}
> > +
> >  # Set defaults to satisfy IMAGE_FEATURES check
> >  IMAGE_FEATURES ?= ""
> >  IMAGE_FEATURES[type] = "list"
>
> This is going to become a usability nightmare. Can we patch
> license_image to just silently do nothing for baremetal?
>

I think we can, but we'd have to do that on every class that is
incompatible (I don't expect many to be, but I tried to generate a more
generic solution and use BAREMETAL_, IMAGE_CLASSES as a gate), with that in
mind, Is that still better than this?



> Cheers,
>
> Richard


>
>
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