[yocto] RFC: Rapid iterative development

[Darren Hart]

While working on a single package, I need to be able to tweak a variable 
in the new recipe, change the MACHINE in local.conf, etc. I'd like to be 
able to rapidly test my changes, but some of these changes trigger a 
long list of dependencies for various commands. While working on a new 
linux kernel recipe, I found it rebuilding a number of things that were 
either -native (can I force it to use the system version rather than 
building one) or seemed unrelated to the process at hand.

Are there some best practices for iterative recipe development that 
speed things along?

Thanks,

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Darren Hart
Yocto Linux Kernel