Re: [yocto-patches] [meta-lts-mixins][scarthgap/rust][PATCH] classes: rename to classes-recipes/

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, 2025-01-20 at 16:32 -0500, Scott Murray via lists.yoctoproject.org wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Jan 2025, Enrico Scholz wrote:
> 
> > Scott Murray <scott.murray@konsulko.com> writes:
> > 
> > > > bitbake looks first in 'classes-recipes/' and then in
> > > > 'classes/'.
> > > > Hence, content had no effect and was just ignored.
> > > > 
> > > > Rename folder so that it overrides the OE-core classes.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz@sigma-chemnitz.de>
> > > [snip]
> > > 
> > > I'm pretty sure this is incorrect.
> > 
> > Logic is in [1]
> > 
> > --> first iterate (using $BBPATH) in 'recipes-%', then in 'recipes'
> 
> Hmm, the code I looked at was in lib/bblayers/query.py, and its logic is
> different AFAICT.  Can you confirm that "bitbake-layers show-overlayed"
> shows it as being overlayed for you as it does for me?  That it does
> would seem to indicate a bblayers bug, and there is perhaps some missing
> documentation of this behavior (change) (e.g. I don't see any mention of
> classes-global vs classes-recipe vs classes and how their prioritization
> works wrt layers in the docs).  I'm CC'ing oe-core just in case I'm
> really missing something here...

I think bblayers needs fixing and we need to sort the docs too...

Copying Antonin as we probably want a bug to track that.

Cheers,

Richard