From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga11.intel.com (mga11.intel.com [192.55.52.93]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66352E0070C for ; Tue, 26 Jun 2012 10:09:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fmsmga001.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.23]) by fmsmga102.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 26 Jun 2012 10:09:28 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.71,315,1320652800"; d="scan'208";a="170264110" Received: from unknown (HELO helios.localnet) ([10.252.120.190]) by fmsmga001.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 26 Jun 2012 10:09:27 -0700 From: Paul Eggleton To: "Robert P. J. Day" Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 18:09:26 +0100 Message-ID: <1447441.xnbSj4QHNd@helios> Organization: Intel Corporation User-Agent: KMail/4.8.3 (Linux/3.2.0-25-generic-pae; KDE/4.8.3; i686; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: <7137339.IoCmExdDEI@helios> MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: yocto@yoctoproject.org Subject: Re: the current yocto FAQ is pretty much valueless X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 17:09:28 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" On Tuesday 26 June 2012 13:05:21 Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Tue, 26 Jun 2012, Paul Eggleton wrote: > > On Tuesday 26 June 2012 12:51:15 Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > ok, that makes sense. but would it also make sense for bitbake to > > > perhaps support another option that *does* allow personal content to, > > > say, be effectively appended to one's local.conf. for instance, every > > > single local.conf i create immediately gets this added to the end: > > > > > > SOURCE_MIRROR_URL ?= "file:///home/rpjday/dl/" > > > INHERIT += "own-mirrors" > > > BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS = "1" > > > # BB_NO_NETWORK = "1" > > > > OK, looking at the settings you've listed, I think these are the > > kinds of things that site.conf was invented for - stuff that is > > specific not to the builds you are doing but to the host machine / > > site. You can simply put these settings in a file called site.conf > > next to local.conf and they'll be read from there; for new build > > directories you can just copy it in or symlink it from some common > > location. > > that still requires just a touch of user intervention. no totally > automatic way to do that, then? it's at least an improvement over > manual copying, thanks. I have thought about this - it would be great if oe-init-build-env could copy/symlink your customised version from somewhere automatically every time; however the question would be how would it know where to copy it from? I'm not sure an added command-line option would be much better than just getting people to copy/symlink it in manually. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre