[yocto] Usage of yocto on different (production vs debug) scenarios

[Uwe Geuder]

Following up on my own message...

On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 1:47 PM, Uwe Geuder <jrswdnan22snkmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 10:59 AM, Iván Castell <icastell at nayarsystems.com> wrote:
>
[...]
>> However, things are getting complicated, because there is no way to
>> exclude some recipes easily. For example, we don't want iptables
>> installed on the debug image, but dependency chains include iptables
>> by default
>
> Doesn't blacklist do what you want?
>
> E.g. in your distro-production.conf
>
> PNBLACKLIST[iptables] = "we don't want iptables in product"
>

As recently mentioned in another thread on this list there is also
BBMASK.

https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/yocto/2018-April/040861.html

I don't know what would be the suitable/most idiomatic use cases for
PNBLACKLIST vs. BBMASK

Regards,

Uwe Geuder
Neuro Event Labs Oy
Tampere, Finland
uwe.gexder at neuroeventlabs.com (Bot check: fix one obvious typo)