[yocto] layer.conf: "packages" directory

[Paul Eggleton]

On Sunday 12 August 2012 08:34:36 Trevor Woerner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In the Yocto Project Development Manual, section 4.1.2 "Creating Your
> Own Layer" it shows an example layer.conf file. In this example, right
> before adding the recipes to BBFILES, appears the comment: "We have a
> packages directory". The problem is, I can't find a directory named
> "packages" anywhere. Is this a historical left-over? Are "packages"
> and "recipes" synonymous in Yocto parlance?
> 
> Many other layer.conf files also contain this wording too:
> 
> meta/conf/layer.conf
> meta-fsl-arm/conf/layer.conf
> meta-hob/conf/layer.conf
> meta-intel/meta-n450/conf/layer.conf
> meta-intel/meta-emenlow/conf/layer.conf
> meta-intel/meta-tlk/conf/layer.conf
> meta-intel/conf/layer.conf
> meta-skeleton/conf/layer.conf
> meta-xilinx/conf/layer.conf
> meta-yocto/conf/layer.conf
> poky-extras/meta-kernel-dev/conf/layer.conf

That comment is quite out-of-date it would seem - "packages" was what the 
"recipes" directory was called (which was subsequently split out into multiple 
recipes-* directories).

We really ought to fix up these comments, especially in examples.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre