From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix, from userid 118) id 6836FE00994; Fri, 1 May 2015 13:25:47 -0700 (PDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on yocto-www.yoctoproject.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU, FREEMAIL_FROM, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-HAM-Report: * 0.0 FREEMAIL_FROM Sender email is commonly abused enduser mail provider * (twoerner[at]gmail.com) * -1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] * -0.1 DKIM_VALID_AU Message has a valid DKIM or DK signature from author's * domain * 0.1 DKIM_SIGNED Message has a DKIM or DK signature, not necessarily * valid * -0.1 DKIM_VALID Message has at least one valid DKIM or DK signature * -0.7 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, low * trust * [209.85.223.172 listed in list.dnswl.org] Received: from mail-ie0-f172.google.com (mail-ie0-f172.google.com [209.85.223.172]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A0F0E0098A for ; Fri, 1 May 2015 13:25:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: by iedfl3 with SMTP id fl3so108632148ied.1 for ; Fri, 01 May 2015 13:25:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=npNaqkWkQ1Zc/6Lw5eCoZVo7wJvKMEFKUCqCI7V1FsE=; b=XUInTdyzf7zSKxLId2Yt5CfOpqpBzGZ0Peqie4ptzpf0QndDjKj0LeETT3lc0Drzv7 tMmQLSZ2QN7ldYYHm5C5Ye2Q5nbvGGgz6Qoo9j6j6RbbpaVyCMfnqA208L798zCw/evT n4z4QD5ixm7Gw/fdB/GD8DBD1Lp0b4BbwtJejlZuzSosZWu55CsS/HG5uZ0MJdNiFnWJ p7iHy+oEbus3R0G7q9Tbex50m6PuejngK5a9Du5Jmof1AdjJjANCEUzVw6nGYRyTlZnw 73ZyMVOYTQDvjnJIFr0A4oyBVQhmyZZOL1qWLsOuhyAOv/IX0umEfSTFfLtHC3Zyhd6z UrBQ== X-Received: by 10.107.13.11 with SMTP id 11mr14775432ion.70.1430511943216; Fri, 01 May 2015 13:25:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.141.85] ([66.49.234.10]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id pg7sm3708160igb.6.2015.05.01.13.25.41 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 01 May 2015 13:25:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5543E142.2020707@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 01 May 2015 16:25:38 -0400 From: Trevor Woerner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Eggleton , Brian Karcz References: <1674505.cjWkHk81xC@peggleto-mobl.ger.corp.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <1674505.cjWkHk81xC@peggleto-mobl.ger.corp.intel.com> Cc: yocto@yoctoproject.org Subject: Re: creating images which include actively developed applications 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: Fri, 01 May 2015 20:25:47 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 04/22/15 13:58, Paul Eggleton wrote: > Hi Brian, > > On Wednesday 22 April 2015 15:32:06 Brian Karcz wrote: >> Is there a way to create a recipe to build actively developed code located >> in an external source directory? Basically skip the fetch and unpack steps >> and always execute the compile and populate steps each time and image is >> built? > Indeed there is: > > http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/dev-manual/dev-manual.html#building-software-from-an-external-source > Paul, I'm surprised you suggested externalsrc instead of just mentioning devtool right from the start (doubly-surprised since you're the person who wrote devtool!). Using devtool the "administration" (of creating a recipe, etc) is done for you, no? http://twoerner.blogspot.ca/2015/01/the-yocto-project-introducing-devtool.html