From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.chez-thomas.org (mail.mlbassoc.com [65.100.170.105]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55EDCE013CA for ; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 08:12:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix, from userid 1998) id 12502F811F5; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 09:12:40 -0600 (MDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on hermes.chez-thomas.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=4.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable version=3.3.2 Received: from [192.168.1.114] (zeus [192.168.1.114]) by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E277F811F3; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 09:12:39 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <516EBBE7.8060201@mlbassoc.com> Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 09:12:39 -0600 From: Gary Thomas User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130329 Thunderbird/17.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: yocto@yoctoproject.org References: <2155264.hXQStR7GGJ@helios> In-Reply-To: <2155264.hXQStR7GGJ@helios> Subject: Re: writeup on the mechanics of FILESEXTRAPATHS and bbappend files X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto Project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:12:40 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 2013-04-17 09:03, Paul Eggleton wrote: > On Wednesday 17 April 2013 10:24:42 Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> a while back, i dug into how FILESEXTRAPATHS worked with respect to >> .bbappend files and i wrote it up, just updated it a bit here: >> >> http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/FILESEXTRAPATHS_and_bbappend_files >> >> do i have it about right? it seemed that the underlying details >> weren't really explained well in any of the current yocto docs, and i >> wanted something i could point students at. > > It looks OK to me although if you're going to point students at it I might > suggest moving the "don't look here!" stuff elsewhere ;) > > Also as I believe I mentioned before, FILESEXTRAPATHS adds not just one > directory but an "entire list of directories" is it allows bbappend file path > behaviour to match that of the recipe itself. I also think it would be good to point out the use of := in the FILESEXTRAPATHS assignment and why it's important. -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | Consulting for the MLB Associates | Embedded world ------------------------------------------------------------