[yocto] DISTRO_FEATURES_append, anyway to override?

[Hans Beckérus]

On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Hans Beckérus <hans.beckerus at gmail.com> wrote:
> We are using a user defined distro, based on poky-tiny. That is, we
> 'require' poky-tiny.conf.
> It is done this way in order not clutter our distro configuration with
> too much magics and defaults.
> However, one problem now is that poky-tiny also 'require' poky.conf,
> and implicitly is doing
>
> DISTRO_FEATURES_append = " largefile opengl multiarch wayland"
>
> In our configuration we do
>
> DISTRO_FEATURES_append = "nfs"
>
> The resulting DISTRO_FEATURES (as checked by bitbake -e) shows that
> everything appended by poky is also added to the custom distro.
> Now, we would like to remove everything but the large file support as
> added by poky. How do we do that? Is the only practical way to copy
> everything from poky.conf and poky-tiny.conf into the custom distro? I
> really would like to avoid that if possible.
> I guess that the new feature DISTRO_FEATURES_remove might help us
> here, but unfortunately we can no step up to such a late version in
> a foreseeable future.
>
Maybe this is the patch we need, it seems to adress exactly this problem.
http://www.mail-archive.com/yocto@yoctoproject.org/msg14784.html

> Thanks.
> Hans