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From: Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: Updating configuration files, how to
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 10:37:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56E14046.8090203@mlbassoc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56E13B20.8010902@nedap.com>

On 2016-03-10 10:15, Jaap de Jong wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am wondering what the best approach is for creating 'standard' packages with updated configuration files.
> As an example: I want to have a package with an updated /etc/network/interfaces file to reflect my systems hardware.
> Should I create a init-ifupdown_1.0.bbappend recipe with the updated file?
> What other options do I have?
> What are you guys using for this?
> And how about the package name in such a case. Append something to its name?

I use a init-ifupdown_1.0.bbappend in my target machine (BSP) layer,
this way these settings only affect the particular machine(s).

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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-10  9:15 Updating configuration files, how to Jaap de Jong
2016-03-10  9:37 ` Gary Thomas [this message]
2016-03-10 19:51   ` Paul Eggleton

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