From: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
To: Chris Larson <clarson@kergoth.com>
Cc: "bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org"
<bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org>,
Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer
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Subject: Re: [bitbake-devel] Layer priorities influencing default version selection
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 08:35:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <A3E3935F-5D98-4208-A45F-DC409F1C97CF@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABcZAN=rG0acoqcV6s-gNvvziM0ON97BzNwtZkESu+wz7vQO-g@mail.gmail.com>
On Aug 2, 2011, at 7:14 AM, Chris Larson <clarson@kergoth.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 6:52 AM, Phil Blundell <philb@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Actually, to some extent I consider it a bit of a misfeature that the
>> layer priority is specified by the layer rather than by the user in
>> bblayers.conf, since this makes it harder to vary the stack-up order
>> without local hackery to the layer files. For example, meta-oe
>> currently sets itself to a higher priority than oe-core, but I've found
>> that it generally seems to suit me better if meta-oe is actually the
>> lower-priority layer.
>
> Agreed. It also means that the priority knowledge is split between
> layer.conf and bblayers.conf today, as config/class priority is
> determined by order of entries in BBLAYERS, whereas recipe priority is
> determined by layer.conf.
In my opinion the layer priority for all kind of meta data should be consistent and selected using bblayers.conf
> --
> Christopher Larson
> clarson at kergoth dot com
> Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
> Maintainer - Tslib
> Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-02 15:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-02 11:26 Layer priorities influencing default version selection Paul Eggleton
2011-08-02 13:45 ` Richard Purdie
2011-08-02 13:52 ` Phil Blundell
2011-08-02 14:14 ` Chris Larson
2011-08-02 14:21 ` [bitbake-devel] " Paul Eggleton
2011-08-02 14:27 ` Chris Larson
2011-08-02 14:51 ` Paul Eggleton
2011-08-02 15:35 ` Khem Raj [this message]
2011-08-25 10:50 ` Paul Eggleton
2011-08-25 15:56 ` Khem Raj
2011-08-25 16:58 ` Paul Eggleton
2011-08-25 21:23 ` Martin Jansa
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