[poky] MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS not working?

[Gary Thomas]

On 03/11/2011 09:31 PM, Darren Hart wrote:
> I'm working to get a certain package installed for a specific machine.
> In particular, I wrote a simple init.d script called n450-audio which
> sets the mixer for the n450 dev board to unmute the FRONT channel and
> set the volume to 70% or so - as it is muted if left untouched. For now,
> I just want to make this board work, so I want to make this package get
> installed if it's dependencies are met (if amixer is installed).
>
> As I understand it, the best way to do this is with something like the
> following in the machine/n450.conf file:
>
> MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS += " n450-audio "
>
> And that recipe in turn defines:
>
> RDEPENDS = "alsa-utils-amixer"
>
> I then:
>
> $ bitbake -c cleanall task-base poky-image-sato-live n450-audio
>
> followed by:
>
> $ bitbake poky-image-sato-live
>
> The n450-audio recipe is built, but it does not appear in the generated
> image (nor in the ext3 image).
>
> I checked the dependency chain and task-base does depend on n450-audio:
>
> $ bitbake -g -u depexp poky-image-sato-live
>
>
> I then tried using the following variables in place of
> MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS with the same result:
>
> MACHINE_EXTRA_RDEPENDS
> MACHINE_ESSENTIAL_RRECOMMENDS
> MACHINE_ESSENTIAL_RDEPENDS
>
> Finally, I added the following to my local.conf and the image built as
> expected:
>
> POKY_EXTRA_INSTALL = " n450-audio "
>
> Am I completely off in the weeds here? If this isn't what these
> directives are for - what are they for?
>
> I took a look at what they are used for elsewhere and found:
>
> $ cat ~/.bashrc | grep bb
>      alias bb='bitbake'
>      alias bbdeps='bitbake -g -u depexp'
> dvhart at rage:poky.git$ git grep MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS
> documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-variables.xml:<glossentry id='var-MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS'><glossterm>MACHINE_
> documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-varlocality.xml:<para><glossterm linkend='var-MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS'>
> meta/conf/bitbake.conf:MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS ?= ""
> meta/conf/machine/atom-pc.conf:MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS = "kernel-modules eee-acpi-scripts"
> meta/conf/machine/beagleboard.conf:MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS = " kernel-modules"
> meta/conf/machine/qemumips.conf:MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS = " kernel-modules"
> meta/conf/machine/routerstationpro.conf:MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS = " kernel-modules"
> meta/recipes-core/tasks/task-base.bb:RRECOMMENDS_task-machine-base = "${MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS}"
>
> Only two other recipes are referenced with these variables:
> kernel-modules and eee-acpi-scripts. I had an atom-pc build so I mounted
> the rootfs and dug around - not a trace of the eee-acpi-scripts to found
> anywhere. I checked for modules under
> /lib/modules/2.6.34.7-yocto-standard/ and found several *.*map files,
> but nothing else (certainly no *.ko files). So this mechanism certainly
> doesn't do what I thought it did.
>
> Is it supposed to? If not, what does it do. It does cause the package
> listed to be built, perhaps that is it's only purpose? The user can
> install the package manually if they want it?
>
> And, more to the point, if this isn't the right mechanism to cause a
> package to be added (if deps are met) to any image for a specific
> machine, what is?
>
> If you want to see the branch in question, it's here:
> http://git.pokylinux.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-intel/log/?h=dvhart/n450-audio
>
> (Yes, the init script is terrible - working on that.)
>
> Thanks,

Did you rebuild task-machine-base?

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