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[1/2,kirstone] docs: migration-4.0: specify variable name change for kernel inclusion in image recipe

Message ID 20230105102155.55177-1-michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com
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Series [1/2,kirstone] docs: migration-4.0: specify variable name change for kernel inclusion in image recipe | expand

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Michael Opdenacker Jan. 5, 2023, 10:21 a.m. UTC 
From: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>

From: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@theobroma-systems.com>

Since commit f6d963fa6d0e ("kernel: make kernel-base recommend
kernel-image, not depend"), present in Kirkstone 4.0, one should
set RRECOMMENDS and not RDEPENDS to avoid including the kernel in the
image, so let's update the documentation to reflect that.

Reported-by: Konstantin Kletschke <konstantin.kletschke@inside-m2m.de>
Cc: Quentin Schulz <foss+yocto@0leil.net>
Signed-off-by: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@theobroma-systems.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
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 documentation/migration-guides/migration-4.0.rst | 3 +++
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diff --git a/documentation/migration-guides/migration-4.0.rst b/documentation/migration-guides/migration-4.0.rst
index a8e6b4c331..fc801144b1 100644
--- a/documentation/migration-guides/migration-4.0.rst
+++ b/documentation/migration-guides/migration-4.0.rst
@@ -265,3 +265,6 @@  Miscellaneous changes
   when parsing recipes. Any code depending on the previous behaviour will no longer
   work - change any such code to explicitly use appropriate path variables instead.
 
+- In order to exclude the kernel image from the image rootfs,
+  :term:`RRECOMMENDS`\ ``:${KERNEL_PACKAGE_NAME}-base`` should be set instead of
+  :term:`RDEPENDS`\ ``:${KERNEL_PACKAGE_NAME}-base``.