From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from 93-97-173-237.zone5.bethere.co.uk ([93.97.173.237] helo=tim.rpsys.net) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NhLyi-0001bs-JV for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:52:35 +0100 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tim.rpsys.net (8.13.6/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o1GBnsSV023853 for ; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:49:54 GMT Received: from tim.rpsys.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (tim.rpsys.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 23277-10 for ; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:49:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from [192.168.3.10] ([192.168.3.10]) (authenticated bits=0) by tim.rpsys.net (8.13.6/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o1GBnmLC023847 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:49:48 GMT From: Richard Purdie To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org In-Reply-To: References: <1266316492.6436.127.camel@rex> Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:49:47 +0000 Message-ID: <1266320987.6436.135.camel@rex> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.2 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at rpsys.net X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 93.97.173.237 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: rpurdie@rpsys.net X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:20:07 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on linuxtogo.org); Unknown failure Subject: Re: RFC: Improve our default conf file setup X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:52:35 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 11:58 +0100, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote: > Sounds quite nice. > Didn't study the class code, but it would be nice if within layer.conf > I could use a relative path, which then is turned into an absolute > path when the layer.conf file is read This is what the LAYERDIR variable gives us. Having relative paths would lose all context outside the layer.conf file. We could hardcode a list of variables that needed to be processed and so on but LAYERDIR removes all that complexity whilst still letting you move things around. > That means layer.conf can become very standard wrt BBPATH etc. and you > can even move layers around. You should be able to do that with my proposal, the only file that would need changing is bblayers.conf, not the layers themselves. Cheers, Richard