Re: DISTRO is set too late

[Harald Seiler <hws@denx.de>]

On Tue, 2018-10-23 at 12:48 +0300, Maxim Yu. Osipov wrote:
> Hi Harald,
> 
> The list of supported distros is under isar/meta-isar/conf/distro/*.conf
> (debian-wheezy is officially not supported but still present for 
> convenience).

We are using `debian-stretch`.  If I add

    DISTRO = "debian-stretch"

to `local.conf`, I can build.  But this should not be necessary as
$DISTRO is also set from multiconf.  The issue is that this happens
too late, so when $DISTRO_SUITE is expanded, it hasn't happened yet.

> How did you get the value `poky` for DISTRO in your environment?

Hmm, apparently this is kas adding

    DISTRO ??= "poky"

to `local.conf` if no distro is supplied in its config.  This should,
again, not be an issue, because the multiconf sets

    DISTRO ?= "debian-stretch"

What seems to go wrong is that the multiconf is read too late, so
that base-apt-helper.bb tries to expand $DISTRO before is has gotten
its final value.  I don't think this is the intended behavior ...

-- 
Harald

DENX Software Engineering GmbH,      Managing Director: Wolfgang Denk
HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany
Phone: +49-8142-66989-62  Fax: +49-8142-66989-80   Email: hws@denx.de