[yocto] BSPs and duplicate files

[Philip Balister]

On 11/11/2010 07:58 PM, Scott Garman wrote:
> On 11/11/2010 04:16 PM, Philip Balister wrote:
>> On 11/11/2010 07:19 AM, João Henrique Freitas wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Two questions:
>>>
>>> With some BSPs, like
>>>
>>> meta
>>> meta-myhardware
>>> meta-mydistro
>>>
>>> I need to create a conf/checksums.ini for every BSP or append it to
>>> meta/conf/checksums.ini ? In other others, checksums.ini is per BSP or
>>> unique?
>>
>> Poky still uses checksums.ini? OE moved the checksums to the recipes and
>> this seems make things much easier to work with.
>
> We'll be switching to recipe-based checksums soon in master, and in fact
> you'll notice that most of our recipes already have checksums in them.
> It's just a matter of importing the code from OE and making whatever
> tweaks might be necessary.

Good to know. I don't think one approach is technically better than the 
other, but when you have a "large" community, it seemed like one 
checksum file lead to merge conflicts.

Philip