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From: Joshua Lock <josh@linux.intel.com>
To: poky@yoctoproject.org
Subject: Re: Distro policy ?
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:43:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1302817417.8711.2.camel@scimitar> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110414194445.9BCC5151F83@gemini.denx.de>

On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 21:44 +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> HI,
> 
> we're trying to build our own distribution based on Yocto 1.0.  We
> would like to push all modifications / extensions and our distro stuff
> upstream into the mainline repository, but we are not sure what is the
> best way to do this:
> 
> So far we have put our distro-related changes into a separate layer
> but it seems that it was not so good idea: it looks like bitbake
> can't include files from one layer to another and we have to copy
> includes even if we don't want to change them.

You can you just have to use a path from the top of the BBPATH entry for
the layer you're using, so in our meta-demo layer I've used entries
like:

require recipes-graphics/clutter/clutter.inc

to use an inc file from meta in Poky.

Cheers,
Joshua
-- 
Joshua Lock
        Yocto Build System Monkey
        Intel Open Source Technology Centre



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-04-14 21:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-14 19:44 Distro policy ? Wolfgang Denk
2011-04-14 20:28 ` Saul Wold
2011-04-14 20:57   ` Chris Larson
2011-04-14 21:12     ` Martin Jansa
2011-04-14 21:19       ` Chris Larson
2011-04-20 22:39         ` Ilya Yanok
2011-04-20 22:56   ` Ilya Yanok
2011-04-14 21:43 ` Joshua Lock [this message]
2011-04-14 23:00   ` Matt Madison
2011-04-15 15:34     ` Richard Purdie
2011-04-20 22:44   ` Ilya Yanok

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