From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix, from userid 118) id 80F34E00779; Thu, 26 Feb 2015 12:29:07 -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 4295BE0074C for ; Thu, 26 Feb 2015 12:29:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from [99.240.204.5] (port=54316 helo=crashcourse.ca) by astoria.ccjclearline.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YR53N-00031u-Kz; Thu, 26 Feb 2015 15:29:01 -0500 Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 15:29:01 -0500 (EST) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost To: Paul Eggleton In-Reply-To: <3318322.uVudHOlJ9O@peggleto-mobl5.ger.corp.intel.com> Message-ID: References: <20150225134406.GH8949@mentor.com> <3318322.uVudHOlJ9O@peggleto-mobl5.ger.corp.intel.com> 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: kernel manual: confusing coverage of FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend 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, 26 Feb 2015 20:29:07 -0000 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================