[OE-core] adding tools-debug to EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES pulls other tasks from same recipe

[Khem Raj]

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Chris Larson <kergoth at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 11:28 PM, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I added to local.conf
>> EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES += "tools-debug"
>>
>> and now when I do bitbake -g I see that its wanting to build
>> "tools-testapp" and "tools-profile"
>> even though I did not ask them to be added to my image. all these
>> packages are coming from
>> single recipe task-core-tools.bb. If I divide this recipe into 3
>> different recipes where each provides
>> just one task, it then leaves the others out.
>>
>> Since these are meta packages they pull in a lot of stuff. Would it be
>> ok to divide this recipe
>> into 3 individual recipes ? Ideally I would expect that the other
>> packages dont get build even
>> though they are in same recipe but that is not the case at present
>
>
> One option would be to avoid the task indirection and simply set
> PACKAGE_GROUP_tools-debug = "<list of debug tools>"

we do lot of overriding in those tasks it would get
a bit ugly I guess if we moved that info to image.bbclass

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> Christopher Larson
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