From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp484.redcondor.net (smtp484.redcondor.net [208.80.204.84]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D73E70516 for ; Wed, 16 Jul 2014 11:26:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from astoria.ccjclearline.com ([64.235.106.9]) by smtp484.redcondor.net ({c48374e7-08df-40d9-a0de-96cc9883a037}) via TCP (outbound) with ESMTPS id 20140716112647937 for ; Wed, 16 Jul 2014 11:26:47 +0000 X-RC-FROM: X-RC-RCPT: Received: from [69.196.158.250] (port=35092 helo=crashcourse.ca) by astoria.ccjclearline.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1X7NMA-0005vB-2X for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Wed, 16 Jul 2014 07:26:42 -0400 Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 07:26:38 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost To: OE Core mailing list Message-ID: User-Agent: Alpine 2.11 (LFD 23 2013-08-11) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - astoria.ccjclearline.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.openembedded.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - crashcourse.ca X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-MAG-OUTBOUND: ccj.redcondor.net@64.235.106.9/32 Subject: two variations for distro-specific FILESEXTRAPATHS prepending 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: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 11:26:53 -0000 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII just ran across this in the meta-yocto layer but it's a general OE question -- the psplash_git.bbappend file contains the following distro-conditional line: FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend_poky := "${THISDIR}/files:" and the accompanying files/ directory has, unsurprisingly, a poky-specific splash image file, "psplash-poky-img.h". but based on how FILESEXTRAPATHS is processed by incorporating all of the FILESOVERRIDES variations (one of which is the distro name), would it not have been entirely equivalent to have used simply FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/files:" and placed that splash file in the accompanying directory files/poky/? would these two approaches do the same thing? is there a preferred way? that's the only example of that i've seen in all the layers i've played with. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================