From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix, from userid 118) id 15727E00C8D; Mon, 28 Sep 2015 11:22:33 -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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-HAM-Report: * -1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] Received: from mail.chez-thomas.org (mail.mlbassoc.com [65.100.170.105]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC408E00A28 for ; Mon, 28 Sep 2015 11:22:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix, from userid 1998) id 3C4F3F811F7; Mon, 28 Sep 2015 12:22:28 -0600 (MDT) Received: from [192.168.1.114] (zeus [192.168.1.114]) by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8104DF81199; Mon, 28 Sep 2015 12:22:27 -0600 (MDT) To: yocto@yoctoproject.org References: <2DCC166D4F5C8443941662E1E67FD5C17871C6C5@LEICESTER.internal.datapath.co.uk> <560960C1.2070806@mlbassoc.com> From: Gary Thomas Message-ID: <5609856D.5050908@mlbassoc.com> Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 12:22:37 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: Creating a new recipe based on another recipe 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: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 18:22:33 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On 2015-09-28 11:59, Daniel. wrote: > I think you're searching for .bbappend don't? Shouldn't be any need for that - it's his recipe, so he can modify it as he wishes. One uses .bbappend to made changes/additions to a recipe where you don't want (or can't) modify the original. > > http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/dev-manual/dev-manual.html#using-bbappend-files > > Or, maybe, put all the common things in a .inc file, create the recipes, include the files in recipes. There is also a lot of examples of this: > http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/plain/meta/recipes-bsp/hostap/ > > Cheers, > - dhs > > 2015-09-28 12:46 GMT-03:00 Gary Thomas >: > > On 2015-09-28 09:30, Stuart Weaver wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have a recipe for a package which builds well. I now need to add a patch into certain builds. What is the best way to do this? > > 1.Is there a variable I can append the image name to (similar to:/SRC_URI_image-name/)?// > > 2.Is there a way of creating a new ‘recipe 2’ that obtains the details from ‘recipe 1’ and applies a patch? This way I can then simply add the new recipe into any builds I > want and > includes any future changes I make to ‘recipe 1’. This solution also means not having to continuously reconfigure/recompile the original recipe! > > 3.Do I have to do it the hard way and copy the whole .bb file into a new one and make sure everything is in sync when future updates are applied? > > > If it's just a patch, the simplest way is to use something like this: > SRC_URI_append_XYZ = "file://XYZ.patch" > where XYZ is something which can identify the override. One example > might be where XYZ is the name of a target board (${MACHINE}) > > There are many examples of this usage in the Poky/Yocto tree(s) > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Gary Thomas | Consulting for the > MLB Associates | Embedded world > ------------------------------------------------------------ > -- > _______________________________________________ > yocto mailing list > yocto@yoctoproject.org > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto > > > > > -- > /"Do or do not. There is no try"/ > ///*Yoda Master*/ > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | Consulting for the MLB Associates | Embedded world ------------------------------------------------------------