From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-ew0-f47.google.com ([209.85.215.47]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Qm560-0007Rq-CE for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:28:24 +0200 Received: by ewy5 with SMTP id 5so1425163ewy.6 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 07:24:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.79.16 with SMTP id n16mr541190bkk.218.1311776649691; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 07:24:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fensuse.internal.dresearch-fe.de (pd95cb174.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [217.92.177.116]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id l22sm406017bku.24.2011.07.27.07.24.08 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 27 Jul 2011 07:24:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E301F87.8040609@dresearch-fe.de> Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:24:07 +0200 From: Steffen Sledz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: openembedded-devel X-Enigmail-Version: 1.2 Subject: understanding overlays 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: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:28:24 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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. Steffen -- DResearch Fahrzeugelektronik GmbH Otto-Schmirgal-Str. 3, 10319 Berlin, Germany Tel: +49 30 515932-237 mailto:sledz@dresearch-fe.de Fax: +49 30 515932-299 Geschäftsführer: Dr. Michael Weber, Werner Mögle; Amtsgericht Berlin Charlottenburg; HRB 130120 B; Ust.-IDNr. DE273952058