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From: Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com>
To: <openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7][PULL] Hob2 related oe-core changes
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 10:37:25 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F072345.9050602@windriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1325867267.14746.8.camel@ted>

On 1/6/12 10:27 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-01-06 at 17:04 +0800, Dongxiao Xu wrote:
>> Hi Richard,
>>
>> This pull request is the hob2 related oe-core changes.
>> Please help to review and pull.
>>
>> Note that this pull request has dependency on the hob related bitbake changes.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dongxiao
>>
>> The following changes since commit 4a85312568a6bb052cc511c15b4ae842ff7f8e59:
>>    Richard Purdie (1):
>>          image-mklibs/package_ipk: Remove bashisms
>>
>> are available in the git repository at:
>>
>>    git://git.pokylinux.org/poky-contrib dxu4/hob-oecore-changes
>>    http://git.pokylinux.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=dxu4/hob-oecore-changes
>>
>> Dongxiao Xu (6):
>>    bblayers.conf.sample: Use ?= to set BBLAYERS
>>    image.bbclass: Use ?= to set LINGUAS_INSTALL
>
> I merged these.
>
>>    packageinfo.bbclass: add a new bbclass to pass package information
>
> I still have quite a strong dislike of this code, its rather nasty to
> require this and I wish we could come up with a less ugly way to collect
> up this information.
>
>>    hob.bb: Add a empty image template
>>    hob-toolchain: add a new recipe hob-toolchain
>>    layers: add a new folder to put user added layers
>
> I don't like these three. They're horribly hob specific and IMO
> shouldn't be in the general metadata. If there is no way to avoid them,
> they should perhaps go into a meta-hob layer directory to keep them
> separate from the rest of the system.
>
> I'm still puzzled how the layers directory helps. We deliberately
> support generic layer locations so forcing the user to place them in a
> particular place seems like a bit of a backwards step? :/.

I think the layer directory is useful for distributions based on oe-core.  But I 
agree, it seems wrong to have it in OE-core itself -- unless there is a strong 
demand from the users of a "standard place" to put layers in their tree.  (So 
far I've not heard such a request.)

--Mark

> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
>
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-06 16:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-06  9:04 [PATCH 0/7][PULL] Hob2 related oe-core changes Dongxiao Xu
     [not found] ` <cover.1325840474.git.dongxiao.xu@intel.com>
2012-01-06  9:04   ` [PATCH 1/7] bblayers.conf.sample: Use ?= to set BBLAYERS Dongxiao Xu
2012-01-06  9:05   ` [PATCH 2/7] image.bbclass: Use ?= to set LINGUAS_INSTALL Dongxiao Xu
2012-01-06  9:05   ` [PATCH 3/7] package.bbclass: set package size into pkgdata for hob2's use Dongxiao Xu
2012-01-06  9:05   ` [PATCH 4/7] packageinfo.bbclass: add a new bbclass to pass package information Dongxiao Xu
2012-01-06 10:32     ` Koen Kooi
2012-01-07  8:00       ` Xu, Dongxiao
2012-01-06  9:05   ` [PATCH 5/7] hob.bb: Add a empty image template Dongxiao Xu
2012-01-06  9:05   ` [PATCH 6/7] hob-toolchain: add a new recipe hob-toolchain Dongxiao Xu
2012-01-06  9:05   ` [PATCH 7/7] layers: add a new folder to put user added layers Dongxiao Xu
2012-01-06 16:27 ` [PATCH 0/7][PULL] Hob2 related oe-core changes Richard Purdie
2012-01-06 16:37   ` Mark Hatle [this message]
2012-01-06 16:41   ` Koen Kooi
2012-01-07  7:47     ` Xu, Dongxiao
2012-01-07  7:53     ` Xu, Dongxiao
2012-01-07  7:40   ` Xu, Dongxiao

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