From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from starfish.geekisp.com (starfish.geekisp.com [216.168.135.166]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EBC55E0027E for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2012 11:09:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 31238 invoked by uid 1003); 17 Oct 2012 18:09:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.16.24.66?) (philip@opensdr.com@157.22.28.10) by mail.geekisp.com with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 17 Oct 2012 18:09:47 -0000 Message-ID: <507EF46A.6010405@balister.org> Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 11:09:46 -0700 From: Philip Balister User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121009 Thunderbird/16.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Eggleton References: <12F9B0C37BAC49429468AA27112A5F5B37B94DF4@DB3PRD0510MB368.eurprd05.prod.outlook.com> <2287710.4FdqJpfmq4@helios> In-Reply-To: <2287710.4FdqJpfmq4@helios> Cc: yocto@yoctoproject.org Subject: Re: How to avoid re-creating a recipe (+my meta-bucket approach) 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: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 18:09:53 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 10/17/2012 01:49 AM, Paul Eggleton wrote: > On Wednesday 17 October 2012 08:39:36 Tim O'Callaghan wrote: >> After seeing the lmsensors thread float by I thought it about time I started >> the discussion on how people manage to avoid re-inventing recipes, and to >> get the ball rolling, I thought I would describe mine. >> >> As I do not have the any idea what recipes may be kicking about, I devised >> what I call the meta-bucket approach. It is pretty simple, I have a script >> that clones every existing OE/Yocto repository I know about into one easily >> grep-able place[1]. >> >> The to the main question, how are others managing this? > > I clone the layer repositories most likely to hold new recipes and then use > some scripts I wrote to process them into a list of recipes that can be easily > searched using grep. I wouldn't mind sharing those scripts if some people > would find them useful. > > However, what I hope we can do in the 1.4 timeframe would be to implement my > proposal here: > > https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3272 > > This would provide us with a way to search all published layers down to the > recipe level from the web. This is an excellent idea! Philip