[yocto] bbappend a "required" bb file

[Gary Thomas]

On 2015-09-25 09:38, Christopher Larson wrote:
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> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 4:18 PM, Allen Curtis <ajcurtis at ac2enterprises.com <mailto:ajcurtis at ac2enterprises.com>> wrote:
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>     I am working with a BSP that has multiple image recipes.
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>     foo-hwbringup-image.bb <http://foo-hwbringup-image.bb>
>     foo-qt5demo-image.bb <http://foo-qt5demo-image.bb>
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>     foo-qt5demo-image.bb <http://foo-qt5demo-image.bb> contains "require foo-hwbringup-image.bb <http://foo-hwbringup-image.bb>"
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>     However if I create foo-hwbringup-image.bbappend, it gets ignored.
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>     What are the rules with appending included recipes?
>
>
> bbappends do not append arbitrary files, only recipes (and in this case, the inclusion treats them as an arbitrary file). They do not apply to anything included or required, only
> the recipe itself. So you'll need to bbappend every recipe that includes foo-hwbringup-image.bb <http://foo-hwbringup-image.bb> in this case.

What's the argument against requires picking up any .bbappends?
I agree with the original poster - this seems only natural and
would be extremely useful, not necessitating jumping through
hoops like "IMAGE_FEATURES", etc.

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