[Toaster] [RFC] Handling IMAGE_INSTALL_append

[Barros Pena, Belen]

On 04/03/2015 15:58, "Reyna, David" <david.reyna at windriver.com> wrote:

>Yes I will take this defect.

All yours:

https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7394

Thanks!

Belén

>
>David
>
>Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Mar 4, 2015, at 4:14 AM, Barros Pena, Belen
>><belen.barros.pena at intel.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On 04/03/2015 11:46, "Damian, Alexandru" <alexandru.damian at intel.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> 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
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Alex
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 10:38 AM, Barros Pena, Belen
>>> <belen.barros.pena at intel.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> So what do you guys think?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Belén
>>>
>>> On 04/03/2015 00:32, "Reyna, David" <david.reyna at windriver.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> 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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