From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.windriver.com (mail.windriver.com [147.11.1.11]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA16A60601 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 2015 09:18:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ALA-HCA.corp.ad.wrs.com (ala-hca.corp.ad.wrs.com [147.11.189.40]) by mail.windriver.com (8.14.9/8.14.5) with ESMTP id t089ICj2025182 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL); Thu, 8 Jan 2015 01:18:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from [128.224.162.204] (128.224.162.204) by ALA-HCA.corp.ad.wrs.com (147.11.189.50) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.3.174.1; Thu, 8 Jan 2015 01:18:11 -0800 Message-ID: <54AE4B50.6010505@windriver.com> Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2015 17:18:08 +0800 From: Chong Lu User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Eggleton References: <15bba8b20b0419737801a6c495d379afb8ed67b2.1420610929.git.Chong.Lu@windriver.com> <1458514.BbQ6jzxGvE@peggleto-mobl5.ger.corp.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <1458514.BbQ6jzxGvE@peggleto-mobl5.ger.corp.intel.com> X-Originating-IP: [128.224.162.204] Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] layerindex.bbclass: Add ability to fetch layers from layer index X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 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: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 09:18:18 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 01/07/2015 05:20 PM, Paul Eggleton wrote: > Hi Chong, > > On Wednesday 07 January 2015 14:35:42 Chong Lu wrote: >> It maybe depends on other layers when one layer is added to BBLAYERS. If >> define LAYERDEPENDS variable in this layer, we will get error from bitbake. >> But sometimes, we don't have defined. Add a mechanism to fetch layers from >> layer index and update bblayers.conf as appropriate. The layer index stores >> dependencies of all layers. Query dependency from layer index and fetch >> layer repo, then add this layer to BBLAYERS. > Hmm, this is certainly interesting but not quite what I had in mind - I was > thinking rather that bitbake-layers would be extended and it would be an > explicit operation to add a layer from the layer index + all of its > dependencies. We can of course also have something semi-automatic like this > class, but the manual tool ought to come first IMHO (which the class could then > make use of). > > Cheers, > Paul Hi Paul, Thanks for your reply. I will try to extend bitbake-layers. Best Regards Chong >