[yocto] forcing a task to run while building an image

[Sathishkumar Duraisamy]

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Joshua Immanuel <josh at hipro.co.in> wrote:
> Hello Sathishkumar,
hello
> On Wed, 2012-02-01 at 16:34 +0530, Sathishkumar Duraisamy wrote:
>> I think, image are build from the packages that are build from the
>> recipe. And there is no way for the bitbake to detect that source is
>> changed like the makefile.
>
> My use-case is such that I need to run a particular task irrespective
> of the changes in that recipe. By adding the task to do_bootimg[depends]
> I was able to accomplish that. (I am not sure whether it is the
> preferred way of doing it)
>
> However, the variables defined in the custom image recipe were not
> getting exposed to the task added to the do_bootimg[depends]. Thats the
> part that I've to figure out (need help).

I understood what you trying to mean. Can you please clarify what
image means, whether final image of rfs like jffs2 or package from a
recipe.

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Sathishkumar D
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