[yocto] Custom splash screen using psplash

[Burton, Ross]

On 9 August 2012 08:31, Giovanni Foiani <fnognn at unife.it> wrote:
> Hi Scott,
>
> I copied the psplash directory (and replaced the logo with mine) into my own
> layer but when I run:
>
> bitbake psplash -c cleansstate
> bitbake psplash
>
> it still builds the sources located into meta-yocto directory and not
> sources that are into my own layer directory.
> How can I build a package pointing to a specific folder path ?

You don't need to copy the entire thing, here is a working example
(against Denzil) of a layer that overrides the splash:

https://github.com/Guacamayo/meta-guacamayo/tree/master/meta-guacamayo/recipes-core/psplash

(the bbappend can be shorter if you track master, as the comments say)

Ross