[Toaster] Design - New custom image and Custom image details pages

[Brian Avery]

thanks :)
-b

On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 11:21 AM, belen barros pena
<belenbarrospena at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 6:32 PM, Brian Avery <avery.brian at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Questions:
>>
>> 1) What's a section defined as in the About an Image page?
>
> It's the value of the SECTION variable. It's supposed to be some kind
> of high level classification mechanism for recipes, although I've been
> told that is not really that meaningful. We show it for all other
> recipes, though, hence showing it for custom images too.
>
>> 2) Why is the license always MIT?
>
> This is pretty much what I got from Paul Eggleton this morning, which
> led to the design as is:
>
> All custom images have their license set to MIT. This is because the
> license applies only to the recipe (.bb) file, and not to the image
> itself. To see which licenses apply to the image you must check the
> license manifest generated with each build.
>
> You can see this information if you hover over the little question
> mark next to the license value in
>
> http://www.yoctoproject.org/toaster/custom-image-details.html
>
>> What if the image they are customizing came from a layer they imported by hand with their own
>> LICENSE?
>
> Base on the explanation above, it's probably not such a big issue,
> since the license of the .bb file is pretty meaningless: what really
> matters are the licenses of the image contents, which are reported by
> the license manifest. We could inherit the LICENSE of the base image
> recipe, although I am not even sure if that would be the right thing
> to do.
>
> Paul might have some thoughts on this.
>
>> 3) When you download the recipe file do you get the image recipe or
>> the image recipe and the meta-custom-images layer?
>
> Only the .bb file
>
>> e.g. how easy is it
>> to drop your custom image into bitbake and make your new image by
>> hand...
>
> I guess you would need to save the .bb file you downloaded into a
> custom layer, edit the bblayers.conf file and do bitbake
> my-custom-recipe.
>
> You can also import your custom layer into Toaster and build it from
> there, although to avoid unexpected behaviour we are going to do some
> kind of trick with the layer priorities, probably combined with
> enforcing unique names for custom images inside Toaster. Still ironing
> out the details of this case.
>
>> 4) Do all the custom images go into the meta-custom-images layer?
>
> They go into the meta-custom-images layer for the project within which
> you created them.
>
>> What about for different projects?
>
> Each project has its own meta-custom-images layer
>
>> 5) Does the meta-custom-images layer show up on the layer list for the
>> project?
>
> Yes. You can see it here
>
> http://www.yoctoproject.org/toaster/project-configuration.html
>
> After some discussion, and since we expose the build system constructs
> to users, we concluded it is probably better to be transparent and
> show that, like any other recipes, custom images are also provided by
> a layer.
>
>> Can you remove it?
>
> No
>
>> What's the behaviour if you do remove it?
>
> You can't.
>
> All these details will go into a separate design document that covers
> how custom images are created. Will be working on that next week.
>
> Cheers
>
> Belén
>
>>
>> -b
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 7:23 AM, Barros Pena, Belen
>> <belen.barros.pena at intel.com> wrote:
>>> I've opened Bugzilla features to track the front end implementation of 2
>>> of the new pages we need for image customisation:
>>>
>>> 1. New custom image, where you start the process of creating a new image
>>>
>>> https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8081
>>>
>>> 2. Custom image details, where you add and remove packages to / from
>>> custom images
>>>
>>> https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8082
>>>
>>> Design documentation attached to the Bugzilla entries as usual. Any
>>> comments, please let me know.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Belén
>>>
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