[yocto] Package naming "exceptions" in Yocto

[Khem Raj]

Elena

> On Jan 13, 2016, at 11:43 PM, Reshetova, Elena <elena.reshetova at intel.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a small question about “exceptional” names of packages in yocto/OE. Kernel package is being one example with the name “linux-yocto” vs.  traditional “linux_kernel”.


This just happens to be that Yocto project maintain a reference kernel and its called linux-yocto just following the naming conventions that are in use for kernel trees ( linux-<feature> ) e.g. linux-stable and so on
OE infra provides virtuals that we use to have pluggable kernels or other packages e.g. virtual/kernel for kernel and there are other packages which are using this mechanism too.

> Are there more such yocto-specific packages (of course excluding FW and other bsp-related packages)? A look over the package list didn’t reveal any, but I wanted to double check.
> 

yocto project does have more tools e.g. cross-prelink etc. there is no general naming convention of something-yocto for packages that project maintains
just check git.yoctoproject.org for number of components.

> The reason I am asking is that in case when we try to determine the package CVEs against the NVD database, in these particular exception cases, we probably want to check not only “linux-yocto”, but also “linux_kernel” open package CVEs with regards to specified version to make sure we cover as much as we can.

it probably is a general problem for end users since they may not use linux-yocto to provide the kernel on system but some other name but in the end they are kernels. may be some tooling to encode this in recipe would be good.
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