[poky] Distro policy ?

[Wolfgang Denk]

HI,

we're trying to build our own distribution based on Yocto 1.0.  We
would like to push all modifications / extensions and our distro stuff
upstream into the mainline repository, but we are not sure what is the
best way to do this:

So far we have put our distro-related changes into a separate layer
but it seems that it was not so good idea: it looks like bitbake
can't include files from one layer to another and we have to copy
includes even if we don't want to change them.

Putting our changes back into the main layer would be pretty trivial,
but it appears that current tendency is to move all
distribution-specific things to their respective layers (like the
poky distro configuration itself was moved to the meta-yocto layer).

So, from the policy side I think we should go with our own layer.
On the technical side I'm disappointed with this 'include' problem: I
find it rather impractical to copy things we don't want to change and
just want to use from one layer to another and then having to keep
these in sync with mainline.

What is the recommended way to address this issue?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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