[Toaster] 7414 example for layer 'meta', is it really a layer?

[Barros Pena, Belen]

On 11/03/2015 22:07, "Lerner, Dave" <dave.lerner at windriver.com> wrote:

>The 7414 bug states:
>"
>For example, instead of
>  /home/user/_poky_master.toaster_cloned/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
>only
>  meta/conf/bitbake.conf
>"
>
>So for example for a 'Yocto Project master' project selection with 5
>layers 
>* the 3 default: oe-embedded, meta-yocto, meta-yocto-bsp
>* and two added: meta-oe and meta-games,
>then for variable "COMBINED_FEATURES", the path is exactly as in your
>example, but there is no layer named 'meta' is not in the layer table.
>
>Is 'meta' a layer that is 'built-in'?

Meta is pretty much openembedded-core. I've asked Paul Eggleton why the
openembedded-core layer is called 'meta' inside the poky repository, and
it is one of those "historical" things. Not much we can do about it at the
moment, I'm afraid.

Cheers

Belén

>
>I'm using a string matching algorithm on the directory name to locate the
>layer in a local path string, layer name length >=4, matching either '/'
>+ layer name or '/_' + layer name, with the layer names sorted descending
>so that longest layer names match first.
>
>Dave