bitbake-layers layerindex-fetch

bitbake-layers layerindex-fetch

[Trevor Woerner]

I'm curious to know what heuristic "bitbake-layers layerindex-fetch"
uses to determine where to place the fetched layers?

I asked my system to:

  $ bitbake-layers layerindex-fetch meta-qt5

and it keeps insisting on installing meta-qt5 and meta-openembedded
under my openembedded-core layers resulting in:

  /z/master/layers/openembedded-core/meta-openembedded/meta-ruby \
  /z/master/layers/openembedded-core/meta-qt5 \

Is there a way that I can tell bitbake-layers that my layers are located
at /z/master/layers and have it work from there?

Re: bitbake-layers layerindex-fetch

[Paul Eggleton]

Hi Trevor,

On Friday 22 May 2015 17:57:46 Trevor Woerner wrote:
> I'm curious to know what heuristic "bitbake-layers layerindex-fetch"
> uses to determine where to place the fetched layers?
> 
> I asked my system to:
> 
>   $ bitbake-layers layerindex-fetch meta-qt5
> 
> and it keeps insisting on installing meta-qt5 and meta-openembedded
> under my openembedded-core layers resulting in:
> 
>   /z/master/layers/openembedded-core/meta-openembedded/meta-ruby \
>   /z/master/layers/openembedded-core/meta-qt5 \
> 
> Is there a way that I can tell bitbake-layers that my layers are located
> at /z/master/layers and have it work from there?

This is controlled by BBLAYERS_FETCH_DIR; by default this is set to 
"${COREBASE}" with ??= so you can set it to your preferred value in local.conf 
as desired. (We should definitely document this, I acknowledge at the moment it 
isn't documented anywhere.)

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre

Re: bitbake-layers layerindex-fetch

[Trevor Woerner]

Hi Paul,

On 05/26/15 09:51, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> Hi Trevor,
>
> On Friday 22 May 2015 17:57:46 Trevor Woerner wrote:
>> I'm curious to know what heuristic "bitbake-layers layerindex-fetch"
>> uses to determine where to place the fetched layers?
>>
>> I asked my system to:
>>
>>   $ bitbake-layers layerindex-fetch meta-qt5
>>
>> and it keeps insisting on installing meta-qt5 and meta-openembedded
>> under my openembedded-core layers resulting in:
>>
>>   /z/master/layers/openembedded-core/meta-openembedded/meta-ruby \
>>   /z/master/layers/openembedded-core/meta-qt5 \
>>
>> Is there a way that I can tell bitbake-layers that my layers are located
>> at /z/master/layers and have it work from there?
> This is controlled by BBLAYERS_FETCH_DIR; by default this is set to 
> "${COREBASE}" with ??= so you can set it to your preferred value in local.conf 
> as desired.

Awesome, thanks! :-)

>  (We should definitely document this, I acknowledge at the moment it 
> isn't documented anywhere.)
>

I've sent a patch for the Bitbake User's Manual.

Re: bitbake-layers layerindex-fetch

[Trevor Woerner]

On 05/26/15 09:51, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> This is controlled by BBLAYERS_FETCH_DIR; by default this is set to 
> "${COREBASE}" with ??= so you can set it to your preferred value in local.conf 
> as desired. (We should definitely document this, I acknowledge at the moment it 
> isn't documented anywhere.)

It'd be nice if "bitbake-layers remove-layer" had the same mechanism.
Some way (preferably using the same BBLAYERS_FETCH_DIR variable,
possibly renamed so it made sense in both cases) to specify the base of
where my layers are stored:

    $ bitbake-layers remove-layer meta-realtime
    No layers matching /z/master/rpi-poky-linaro-rt/meta-realtime found
in BBLAYERS

But my layers are stored in /z/master/layers.




Of course I can get around this by using:

    $ bitbake-layers remove-layer *meta-realtime

Re: bitbake-layers layerindex-fetch

[Paul Eggleton]

On Friday 29 May 2015 16:11:41 Trevor Woerner wrote:
> On 05/26/15 09:51, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > This is controlled by BBLAYERS_FETCH_DIR; by default this is set to
> > "${COREBASE}" with ??= so you can set it to your preferred value in
> > local.conf as desired. (We should definitely document this, I acknowledge
> > at the moment it isn't documented anywhere.)
> 
> It'd be nice if "bitbake-layers remove-layer" had the same mechanism.
> Some way (preferably using the same BBLAYERS_FETCH_DIR variable,
> possibly renamed so it made sense in both cases) to specify the base of
> where my layers are stored:
> 
>     $ bitbake-layers remove-layer meta-realtime
>     No layers matching /z/master/rpi-poky-linaro-rt/meta-realtime found
> in BBLAYERS
> 
> But my layers are stored in /z/master/layers.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Of course I can get around this by using:
> 
>     $ bitbake-layers remove-layer *meta-realtime

Right, it expects a layer path and not just a layer name. I've entered the 
following enhancement:

https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7839

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre