From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mga01.intel.com ([192.55.52.88]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1T8RcF-0003bG-K7 for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Mon, 03 Sep 2012 10:02:39 +0200 Received: from fmsmga001.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.23]) by fmsmga101.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 03 Sep 2012 00:50:18 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.80,359,1344236400"; d="scan'208";a="217452608" Received: from unknown (HELO helios.localnet) ([10.252.121.155]) by fmsmga001.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 03 Sep 2012 00:50:17 -0700 From: Paul Eggleton To: Martin Jansa Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2012 08:49:26 +0100 Message-ID: <1624899.nqBzdK1tX0@helios> Organization: Intel Corporation User-Agent: KMail/4.9 (Linux/3.2.0-29-generic-pae; KDE/4.9.0; i686; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20120903072317.GD3205@jama.jama.net> References: <3830362.NxTCTzAyLx@helios> <20120903072317.GD3205@jama.jama.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] sstate-cache-management.sh: look in meta* above oe-core dir when looking for available tunes X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2012 08:02:40 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" On Monday 03 September 2012 09:23:17 Martin Jansa wrote: > On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 01:07:53PM +0100, Paul Eggleton wrote: > > On Sunday 02 September 2012 13:13:20 Martin Jansa wrote: > > > * many layouts have other layers on the same level as oe-core checkout > > > > This is beginning to indicate that this script really needs to actually > > know something about your configuration rather than trying to guess it. > You can pass more layers to script with: > > --extra-layer=,... > Specify the layer which will be used for searching the archs, > it will search the meta and meta-* layers in the top dir by > default, and will search meta, meta-*, , , > ... when specified. Use "," as the separator. > > But nobody says what is "top dir", in my bblayers.conf it's the > directory with oe-core and meta-* checkouts and I think this is common > layout if you're not using some combo tool to merge all layers to > oe-core checkout. > > So this change only makes default search path a bit more usefull and > then it filteres available arch anyway. I don't dispute that your change is an improvement, I just think it would be a good future improvement to pick up the configuration from bitbake rather than working in the way it currently does. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre