[yocto] image inheritance problem

[Martin Townsend]

Hi Khem,

On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 6:57 PM, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/26/18 10:52 AM, Martin Townsend wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have an image say
>>
>> my-image-minimal.bb in one layer and and append this
>> (my-image-minimal.bbappend) in another layer.  In this append I'm adding
>> IMAGE_INSTALL += "kernel-modules"
>> for example.
>>
>> Now if I run
>> bitbake my-image-minimal -e | grep ^IMAGE_INSTALL
>> I see kernel-modules
>>
>> So bbappend is working, now I have another image
>>
>> my-image which has
>> requires /core/images/my-image-minimal.bb
>> ...
>>
>> But kernel-modules is not appearing in this image and
>> bitbake my-image -e | grep ^IMAGE_INSTALL
>>
>> confirms this.
>>
>> Any ideas as to what I'm doing wrong, I assume bitbake supports this.
>>
>
> in second case you are including the .bb file so its behaving as an
> include file.
> bbappend only applies to parsed recipes not include files.
>

Thanks for the swift reply and clarifications on how requires/include works.

Don't suppose you know of the best way of handling this situation?

>> I'm using the Krogoth release.
>>
>> Many Thanks in advance,
>> Martin.
>>
>
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