From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix, from userid 118) id 7681CE00902; Thu, 8 Jan 2015 06:15:44 -0800 (PST) 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 astoria.ccjclearline.com (astoria.ccjclearline.com [64.235.106.9]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68EECE008E5 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 2015 06:15:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from [99.240.204.5] (port=38590 helo=crashcourse.ca) by astoria.ccjclearline.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Y9Ds7-0005Ai-8m; Thu, 08 Jan 2015 09:15:35 -0500 Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2015 09:15:34 -0500 (EST) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost To: micke.prag@telldus.se In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.11 (LFD 23 2013-08-11) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - astoria.ccjclearline.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - yoctoproject.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - crashcourse.ca X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Cc: yocto@yoctoproject.org Subject: Re: is it not a *requirement* that layers start with "meta-"? 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: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 14:15:44 -0000 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Thu, 8 Jan 2015, micke.prag@telldus.se wrote: > > Message: 6 > Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2015 08:31:58 -0500 (EST) > From: "Robert P. J. Day" > To: Anders Darander > Cc: Yocto discussion list , > "peterengcomau001@adam.com.au" > Subject: Re: [yocto] is it not a *requirement* that layers start with > "meta-"? > Message-ID: > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > > On Thu, 8 Jan 2015, Anders Darander wrote: > * Robert P. J. Day [150105 18:09]: > On Mon, 5 Jan 2015, Rifenbark, Scott M wrote: > > If anyone can locate some scripts or something that > actually does require "meta-" to be prepended please let > me know. That changes how we describe this. > > as an admittedly simple example, i ran across this in oe-core's > scripts/contrib/documentation-audit.sh: > > for pkg in `bitbake -s | awk '{ print \$1 }'`; do > > ... snip ... > > if [[ "$pkg" =~ ^meta- || "$pkg" =~ ^packagegroup- || "$pkg" =~ > -image ]]; then # Skip meta, task and image recipes continue fi > > checking that the package name starts with "meta-" seems to pretty > clearly suggest that it will be treated differently than if it > doesn't. i'm sure no one is terribly worried about that particular > script, but it does seem to show an example of this. > > But that's checking *recipe* names, not layer names... Thus, you'll have to look > for another example. ;) > > ah, quite so, so perhaps the "meta-" prefix is not a real > requirement, just convention. > > rday > > -- > > The layer "openembedded-core" does not start with "meta-". well, yes, but that's kind of a special case as it's the only *required* layer. in any event, i apologize if i made a bigger deal out of this than was warranted, i just thought the rules for layer naming were a bit ambiguous and i wanted some clarification. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================