On Fri, Jul 01, 2016 at 02:27:00PM -0700, Christopher Larson wrote: > From: Christopher Larson <[email protected]> > > This adds support for .wks.in files as WKS_FILE. > > This is a re-send of the RFC PATCH series as a regular PATCH series, to > attempt to get the feature merged. There's a clear value-add, there were no > major objections to the RFC series, and further improvements can be added on > from here. > > These files are treated as the contents of a bitbake variable, so usual > bitbake variable references are supported. I considered using another > templating mechanism, for example the one used by yocto-layer, but then we'd > end up largely mapping metadata variables to template fields anyway, which is > a pointless indirection. Let bitbake expand the variables directly instead. > > This feature lets us, for example, reference ${APPEND} in --append, and avoid > hardcoding the serial console tty in the wks file, and let the user's changes > to APPEND affect wic the way they do the other image construction mechanisms. > > The template is read in and set in a variable at parse time, so changes to the > variables referenced by the template will result in rebuilding the image. > > > The following changes since commit 646c366c2566bd8dd6f73681cea9f5b021589a56: > > gst-player: upgrade to latest HEAD (2016-06-27 14:08:37 +0100) > > are available in the git repository at: > > git://github.com/kergoth/openembedded-core wks.in2 > https://github.com/kergoth/openembedded-core/tree/wks.in2 > > Christopher Larson (2): > image_types.bbclass: add intermediate var for WKS_FILE_CHECKSUM > image_types.bbclass: support template .wks.in files for wic > > meta/classes/image_types.bbclass | 49 > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- > 1 file changed, 48 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) >
Thank you for the patchset! A bit unrelated note. You seem to know wic functionality in meta/classes/image* better than anyone else. Would you mind adding this knowledge to wic documentation in development manual? -- Regards, Ed -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
