[meta-intel] [PATCH 0/4] misc meta-intel Fixes

[Kamble, Nitin A]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hart, Darren
> Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 2:11 PM
> To: Burton, Ross
> Cc: Richard Purdie; Kamble, Nitin A; meta-intel at yoctoproject.org; Zanussi,
> Tom
> Subject: Re: [meta-intel] [PATCH 0/4] misc meta-intel Fixes
> 
> On Wed, 2013-08-14 at 22:02 +0100, Burton, Ross wrote:
> > On 14 August 2013 21:49, Darren Hart <darren.hart at intel.com> wrote:
> > > So the correct way to build from oe-core without meta-yocto would be
> > > to append these values to DISTRO_FEATURES in local.conf? That or
> > > define our own DISTRO... which is basically what including
> > > meta-yocto does with poky. I did pull this in for Minnow and will now
> have to revert.
> >
> > Yeah, you can use DISTRO_FEATURES_append = " opengl" in your
> > local.conf if you want to do a "pure" bitbake+oe-core build.
> >
> > > If I understood correctly, the REQUIRED_DISTRO_FEATURES mechanisms
> > > was only proposed and does not exist currently?
> >
> > Correct.
> >
> > > What is the current mechanism for this? Do we have one of the tasks
> > > in the emgd driver recipe check for the required features in distro
> > > config and error out if they are missing?
> >
> > The systemd recipe has a fairly idiomatic way of skipping packages
> > depending on the distro features, which will result in an message
> > saying the package is being skipped, and then a build failure when the
> > dependencies don't resolve.
> 
> Nitin, can you please have a look at the systemd example and consider a
> rewrite using that for meta-intel as well as meta-minnow?


Darren,
I am already looking at the alternate solution. I will work with Ross to get a agreeable solution to this issue.

> 
> Thanks again Ross and RP for catching this, we appreciate the importance of
> the appropriate layer rules.


Yes, Thanks RP & Ross for catching this.


Thanks,
Nitin

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