[Toaster] [RFC] Handling IMAGE_INSTALL_append

[Reyna, David]

Yes I will take this defect.

David

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> On Mar 4, 2015, at 4:14 AM, Barros Pena, Belen <belen.barros.pena at intel.com> wrote:
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> On 04/03/2015 11:46, "Damian, Alexandru" <alexandru.damian at intel.com>
> wrote:
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>> This needs to be done in the backend - we can't trust whatever the
>> browser is telling us, we have to check it on the server side.
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> Thanks, Alex. If nobody fundamentally disagrees, can I go ahead and open a
> Bugzilla entry for this?
> 
> David: can I assign it to you?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Belén
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>> Alex
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>> On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 10:38 AM, Barros Pena, Belen
>> <belen.barros.pena at intel.com> wrote:
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>> So what do you guys think?
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>> Thanks!
>> 
>> Belén
>> 
>> On 04/03/2015 00:32, "Reyna, David" <david.reyna at windriver.com> wrote:
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>>>> From my perspective, option 1 is the best one.
>>> 
>>> And I still agree with that.
>>> 
>>> Trying to have the user do this opens the door to trivial but blocking
>>> defects, and the GUI experience is supposed to be superior and more
>>> guided than the raw command line experience.
>>> 
>>> The fall back is to have the front end interface enforce this invisibly,
>>> in other words always force a leading space when it writes this value to
>>> the backend but present/accept a trimmed value. This is something that
>>> could be done quickly, but then we are spreading this arcane syntax rule
>>> to the frontend away from the presumably more intelligent backend.
>>> 
>>> - David
>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: toaster-bounces at yoctoproject.org [mailto:toaster-
>>>> bounces at yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Barros Pena, Belen
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2015 2:47 AM
>>>> To: toaster at yoctoproject.org
>>>> Subject: [Toaster] [RFC] Handling IMAGE_INSTALL_append
>>>> 
>>>> The default project configuration we ship with Toaster includes the
>>>> IMAGE_INSTALL_append variable. This variable requires a space before
>>>> the
>>>> first package name. We have spoken before about taking 2 possible
>>>> approaches to handle this:
>>>> 
>>>> 1. Toaster takes responsibility and adds the space for you. How this
>>>> could
>>>> be done, I am not sure. I guess we can either somehow identify
>>>> IMAGE_INSTALL_append as the type of variable that requires a space
>>>> before
>>>> the first list item, or we can hardcode it.
>>>> 
>>>> 2. Users take responsibility and add the space themselves. Easier to
>>>> implement (we add some help text to the field), but bound to fail
>>>> (users
>>>> don't read help text).
>>>> 
>>>> From my perspective, option 1 is the best one. I don't care if we need
>>>> to
>>>> hardcode it. Adding this variable to the default project configuration
>>>> is
>>>> very much a temporary solution until we provide functionality to
>>>> customise
>>>> the list of packages installed by an image recipe.
>>>> 
>>>> Would this be acceptable to everybody else?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks!
>>>> 
>>>> Belén
>>>> 
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>> Alex Damian
>> Yocto Project
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>> SSG / OTC
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