[yocto] Excluding ptest packages from image build

[Scott Rifenbark]

If we set up a bug on this.... Be sure to include the explanation about the
misleading doc entry for that variable as well.  There would be a definite
documentation component to the bug.

Thanks,
Scott

On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 10:34 PM, ChenQi <Qi.Chen at windriver.com> wrote:

> I just checked the codes. I think the ref manual might be a little
> misleading.
> "Prevents specific packages from being installed when you are installing
> complementary packages. "
> might better be changed to:
> "Prevents specific packages to install their complementary packages. Items
> specified by this variable are considered as regular expression."
> Maybe an example should follow.
>
> So specifying value 'acl' for PACKAGE_EXCLUDE_COMPLEMENTARY should be
> valid and its complementary packages should not be installed. Specifying
> 'acl.*' should have the same effect, but 'acl.' should not.
>
> Anyway, I think you should file a bug with steps to reproduce the problem.
>
> Also, I found that we currently don't have a mechanism to exclude some
> specific complementary package (e.g. acl-ptest in your case). We might need
> to reconsider what PACKAGE_EXCLUDE should mean.
> More specifically, if a user requires *-ptest packages in general, but
> wants to exclude acl-ptest package, there's no easy way to do so.
>
> Best Regards,
> Chen Qi
>
> On 05/09/2018 11:30 PM, Erik Nellessen wrote:
>
>> I would like to exclude some ptest packages from an image build.
>>
>> To include ptest packages in general, my image recipe contains the
>> following line:
>> IMAGE_FEATURES_append = " ptest-pkgs"
>>
>> As a first step, I tried to exclude the acl-ptest package. To do so, I
>> added the following to my image recipe:
>> PACKAGE_EXCLUDE_COMPLEMENTARY = "acl-ptest"
>>
>> I thought that this would exclude the acl-ptest package as described in
>> the project reference: https://www.yoctoproject.org/d
>> ocs/2.4.2/ref-manual/ref-manual.html#var-PACKAGE_EXCLUDE_COMPLEMENTARY
>> "Prevents specific packages from being installed when you are installing
>> complementary packages.
>>
>> You might find that you want to prevent installing certain packages when
>> you are installing complementary packages. For example, if you are using
>> IMAGE_FEATURES to install dev-pkgs, you might not want to install all
>> packages from a particular multilib. If you find yourself in this
>> situation, you can use the PACKAGE_EXCLUDE_COMPLEMENTARY variable to
>> specify regular expressions to match the packages you want to exclude."
>>
>> Anyhow this did not result in an image without the acl-ptest package, as
>> I could validate by having a look at the image's manifest file.
>>
>> When I changed the image recipe to contain the regular expression "acl",
>> i.e
>> PACKAGE_EXCLUDE_COMPLEMENTARY = "acl"
>> all three acl packages (acl, acl-lic, acl-ptest) were excluded from the
>> image.
>>
>> And to really start the confusion, when changed the regular expression to
>> "acl.", i.e.
>> PACKAGE_EXCLUDE_COMPLEMENTARY = "acl."
>> all three packages were also excluded.
>>
>> Now I am really confused. My expectation was that "acl-ptest" and "acl"
>> would match the acl-ptest package name and "acl." would not match the acl
>> package name.
>>
>> Does anybody see what I am missing here?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Erik
>>
>>
>>
>>
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