[poky] poky and OpenEmbedded (post-release)

[Martin Jansa]

On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 03:31:16PM -0400, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 03:07:00PM -0400, Trevor Woerner wrote:
> > Many thanks to Denys for pointing me to
> > http://openembedded.org/wiki/OpenEmbedded-Core. You won't believe how
> > I've poured over that page and how many "lights have gone on" while
> > reading it (over and over).
> > 
> > If poky started as a fork of OE but is now a distribution, wouldn't it
> > make sense to remove the "meta" directory from poky and simply have
> > people add openembedded-core as a layer (as they would any other
> > layer)?
> 
> I believe that was suggested few times before (and other distros are doing 
> exactly that - i.e. assembling their distros from layers), but Poky developers 
> prefer their distro to be already pre-assembled for ease of use. Besides 
> openembedded-core layer, there're also bitbake and meta-yocto inside Poky. It 
> maybe confusing at first, but think of it as being pre-assembled from bitbake+
> oe-core + meta-yocto and saved into a single repository.
> 
> Well, at least it saves Poky from needing to provide setup tools to download 
> and assemble different layers from different repositories. Otherwise you would 
> need something like our oe-layersetup[1] tool for Arago or setup-scripts for 
> Angstrom etc.

But on the other hand they wouldn't need to send slightly different
(path prefix) patchsets for poky and for oe-core/bitbake/meta-yocto.

> [1] git://arago-project.org/git/projects/oe-layersetup.git
> 
> -- 
> Denys
> 
> > Or am I going down the wrong path with this thought?
> > 
> > Of course it might be confusing having, potentially, both an
> > openembedded-core and a meta-openembedded layer, but it seems like
> > having the "meta" directory in poky is redundant, given that it is
> > already its own layer in openembedded-core.
> > 
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