Bug 2944

Summary:	[HOB] Hob should let you pick the default shell
Product:	[Build System, Metadata & Runtime] Hob	Reporter:	Dave Stewart <david.c.stewart>
Component:	hob	Assignee:	Belen Barros Pena <belen.barros.pena>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Low	CC:	alexandru.damian, cristiana.voicu, dongxiao.xu, jessica.zhang, jiajun.xu, poky.bs.watcher, poky.watcher, richard.purdie, shane.wang
Version:	1.3
Target Milestone:	Future
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Multiple
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto:	---	Type of Regression:	---
Verified:		Documentation change:	No (bug/feature does not impact docs)

Description Dave Stewart 2012-08-14 14:07:35 UTC

Currently to select a new default shell, it's a little non-obvious how to do it.

Please add some way to select a default shell.

Likely there could be other configuration options we should add, but adding a default shell is pretty important.

Comment 1 Cristiana Voicu 2012-08-31 09:14:25 UTC

Can you please give more information about this shell? Where, on which page it should appear?
Thank you

Comment 2 Dave Stewart 2012-09-03 22:00:17 UTC

Currently there is no place in Hob to change the default shell.

I'm told that the way you change your default shell is to add a recipe for a different shell and it becomes the default, sort of by magic.

I'd like us to make the choice explicit in Hob. I don't know the proper place to set it ... Belen should be consulted.

Comment 3 Belen Barros Pena 2012-09-10 10:25:16 UTC

It seems to me this could be added to the settings dialog, probably in the 'Build environment' tab, but I would need to learn a bit about the matter. 

This bug looks to me like a new feature: any chance we could push it to 1.4?

Thanks!

Belen

Comment 4 Belen Barros Pena 2013-03-01 11:05:28 UTC

I think this might be something we could do by adding the shell option to one of the settings dialogs. Not for this release, though: moving it to 1.5.

Comment 5 Cristiana Voicu 2013-04-15 08:31:53 UTC

Related to #3252

Comment 6 Belen Barros Pena 2014-05-14 16:33:29 UTC

At this point, work will take place on toaster, not hob, so marking as won't fix.