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On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 10:56 -0700, Chris Larson wrote:
> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 1:54 AM, Richard Purdie
> <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > Er, how about we actually fix metadata_scm.bbclass instead of making the
> > world more complicated and fragile? :)
> >
> > I suspect metadata_scm could use the COREBASE variable and be much nicer
> > code...
> 
> I'd really like to see it gather information about the current state
> of all layers which are scm working copies and summarize this in the
> build summary, rather than grabbing one specific bit of information,
> personally.

I'd also agree with this and have said as much somewhere (layer tooling
discussions?) but I'll take the COREBASE change short term.

Cheers,

Richard