[poky] Distro policy ?

[Joshua Lock]

On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 21:44 +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> 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.

You can you just have to use a path from the top of the BBPATH entry for
the layer you're using, so in our meta-demo layer I've used entries
like:

require recipes-graphics/clutter/clutter.inc

to use an inc file from meta in Poky.

Cheers,
Joshua
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Joshua Lock
        Yocto Build System Monkey
        Intel Open Source Technology Centre