You have to define an additional distribution I'm afraid. It can share
almost everything with the existing distro, but set PREFERRED_PROVIDER
differently.

Alex

On Thu, 17 Nov 2022 at 16:22, Maik Vermeulen <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Depending on the image that's being built, e.g. development vs.
> production, we would like to be able to include different user
> passwords and firewall settings.
>
> We know this can be achieved by just having two different recipes that do
> the same thing, but with different variables or included files. However, we
> were wondering if there is a neater way?
>
> We saw this post:
> https://www.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/yocto/2018-June/041378.html
> which seems to do what we want, because one recipe can install
> recipe-development, and the other can install recipe-production, while the
> recipe itself can then implement what needs to happen for either.
> However, other recipes included in the images can also depend on recipe,
> and they shouldn't depend on one specifically. They should accept that
> either recipe-development or recipe-production is included. Currently we
> see that both the generic recipe and the specific recipe used by the image
> are built and overwrite each other.
>
> What would be a neat way to achieve two variants of a recipe, and having
> different contents and settings in them?
> Or, can we solve that other included recipes depend on one of the
> variants, instead of on the generic one.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Maik Vermeulen
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