From: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: understanding overlays
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 10:07:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1536968.X2sCWL0zD8@perseus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E30F83B.3080907@dresearch-fe.de>
On Thursday, July 28, 2011 07:48:43 AM Steffen Sledz wrote:
> On 27.07.2011 18:12, Chris Larson wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 7:24 AM, Steffen Sledz <sledz@dresearch-fe.de>
wrote:
> >> I'm not really familiar with the oe/bitbake overlay details. So please
> >> forgive me if this is a faq. ;-)
> >>
> >> Is the overlay package or file based?
> >>
> >> Or in other words is the following scenario possible?
> >>
> >> base layer:
> >> recipes/
> >>
> >> foo/
> >>
> >> foo.inc
> >> foo_x.y.z.bb
> >>
> >> overlay:
> >> recipes/
> >>
> >> foo/
> >>
> >> foo.inc
> >>
> >> And than build foo-x.y.z with the foo.inc from the overlay.
> >
> > That depends. If the .bb does 'require foo.inc', then no, it will use
> > the local one. If it does 'require recipes/foo/foo.inc', then yes, it
> > will use the overlay one, assuming the overlay is before the main
> > layer in your BBLAYERS.
>
> Thx. What about files referenced e.g. in SRC_URI? I assume that always the
> ones from the 'highest' layer are used. Right?
It will consider the BBFILE_PRIORITY for recipe files. but .inc and other
metadata are searched in order of paths in BBPATH
--
Khem Raj
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-30 17:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-27 14:24 understanding overlays Steffen Sledz
2011-07-27 16:12 ` Chris Larson
2011-07-28 5:48 ` Steffen Sledz
2011-07-30 17:07 ` Khem Raj [this message]
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