[yocto] image inheritance problem

[Martin Townsend]

On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 7:17 PM, Martin Townsend
<mtownsend1973 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

Not sure if it's the best way but I converted the bbappend to an image
recipe my-minimal-image-xxx.bb
and then include this as well as include will ignore it if the layer
doesn't exist. Seems to work :)

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