[poky] Distro policy ?

[Martin Jansa]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 01:57:16PM -0700, Chris Larson wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Saul Wold <saul.wold at intel.com> wrote:
> >> 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.
> 
> There's no reason you should have to copy unmodified files from one
> layer to another, ever.  Configuration files are found via BBPATH when
> they're referenced via a relative path, and file:// files via
> FILESPATH are easily dealt with as well.  The only time you should
> have to copy is if you have a need to modify them, particularly as
> there's no "bbappend" that corresponds to recipe .inc files.  Is there
> a particular case you're thinking of here?

I guess he was talking about
require/include some.inc
used in recipe

Then I had to copy some.inc to same folder there my recipe is. Even when
it's used in same path relative to layer top dir

Regards,

-- 
Martin 'JaMa' Jansa     jabber: Martin.Jansa at gmail.com
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