Re: [PATCH] meta/classes: generate bill of material from image

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>]

On 05.08.19 17:08, Henning Schild wrote:
> Am Mon, 5 Aug 2019 16:48:36 +0200
> schrieb Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>:
> 
>> On 05.08.19 16:43, [ext] Henning Schild wrote:
>>> Hi Quirin,
>>>
>>> do you have a real use-case for that? In fact we do have similar
>>> things internally already but did not propose it yet. Reason is you
>>> still need to find all the magic switches to collect the source and
>>> binary package versions, and you most likely want a machine
>>> readable format.  
>>
>> The use cases are the same what we have that internal stuff for.
>>
>>>
>>> In fact we should just fix that broken offline cache thing and
>>> enable src-packages for it. That would generate a list that will
>>> hopefully be complete and in a well defined format.  
>>
>> Good points: The format should be easily parseable.
>>
>>>
>>> Without the real use-case and the post-processing this is just
>>> another obscure Isar feature and i am against merging it.  
>>
>> How would you do it otherwise? Tell the beginners to remember which
>> command to run with which switches on which subdirs?
>>
>> Quirin and I were also discussing the first extension: We need to
>> collect information about additional packages that are not part of
>> the rootfs but the image, primarily bootloaders. Providing a
>> framework - however that may look like
>> - for recipe authors to report them would be valuable and can be
>> achieved by any local solution that cleanly.
> 
> What i meant to say was. Please contact all the people that are already
> doing that and collect the requirements.
> Because if we miss any of the known ones, the feature will be an obscure
> one.

That's what this is patch proposal is for: get the attention. :)

Jan

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