Rename task to packagegroup

"Package group" is a much more appropriate name for these than task,
since we use the word task to describe units of work executed by
BitBake.

(From OE-Core rev: 424dcf7046e4ad09dcc664eb1992201195247fcf)

Signed-off-by: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 30 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/meta/classes/packagegroup.bbclass b/meta/classes/packagegroup.bbclass
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+# Task packages are only used to pull in other packages
+# via their dependencies. They are empty.
+ALLOW_EMPTY = "1"
+
+# By default, only the task package itself is in PACKAGES.
+# -dbg and -dev flavours are handled by the anonfunc below.
+# This means that task recipes used to build multiple task
+# packages have to modify PACKAGES after inheriting task.bbclass.
+PACKAGES = "${PN}"
+
+# By default, task packages do not depend on a certain architecture.
+# Only if dependencies are modified by MACHINE_FEATURES, packages
+# need to be set to MACHINE_ARCH after inheriting task.bbclass
+PACKAGE_ARCH = "all"
+
+# This automatically adds -dbg and -dev flavours of all PACKAGES
+# to the list. Their dependencies (RRECOMMENDS) are handled as usual
+# by package_depchains in a following step.
+python () {
+    packages = d.getVar('PACKAGES', True).split()
+    genpackages = []
+    for pkg in packages:
+        for postfix in ['-dbg', '-dev']:
+            genpackages.append(pkg+postfix)
+    d.setVar('PACKAGES', ' '.join(packages+genpackages))
+}
+
+# We don't want to look at shared library dependencies for the
+# dbg packages
+DEPCHAIN_DBGDEFAULTDEPS = "1"