Re: kernel manual: confusing coverage of FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>]

On Thu, 26 Feb 2015, Paul Eggleton wrote:

> Our policy in OE-Core (and the layers under meta-openembedded) is to
> move away from files/ to ${BPN} for a bit of consistency - if you
> use ${BPN} it then doesn't matter if you have more than one recipe
> in a directory, the files for each recipe are still kept separate
> instead of a files/ directory with a mixture of files for different
> recipes. ${BP} would only be used for patches that are specific to a
> version where multiple versioned recipes are being provided, leading
> to multiple versions of the same files needing to be present.

  ok, so ... ${BPN} for single-recipe directories *or* common files
across multi-version recipes, and ${BP} for version-specific stuff?
that's the way i'm reading that. that's good, it's the sort of thing
that would be good in a "style guide."

rday

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