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From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/9] distro: Factor out poky-common.inc from poky.conf
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On Wed, 2011-12-21 at 01:02 -0800, Darren Hart wrote:
> Prepare to add additional poky distro variants by factoring out
> assignments common to all poky* distros into poky-common.inc. Things
> like the naming schemes, mirrors, etc. are common, while dependencies
> and other things impacting image generation should be distro specific.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>

Why doesn't something like:

"""
$meta-yocto/conf/distro$ cat poky-lsb.conf 
require conf/distro/poky.conf

DISTRO = "poky-lsb"
DISTROOVERRIDES = "poky:linuxstdbase"
"""

work?

Effectively the above takes poky but then customises it...

Cheers,

Richard