[yocto] is it not a *requirement* that layers start with "meta-"?
Robert P. J. Day
rpjday at crashcourse.ca
Thu Jan 8 05:31:58 PST 2015
On Thu, 8 Jan 2015, Anders Darander wrote:
> * Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> [150105 18:09]:
>
> > On Mon, 5 Jan 2015, Rifenbark, Scott M wrote:
>
> > > If anyone can locate some scripts or something that actually does
> > > require "meta-" to be prepended please let me know. That changes
> > > how we describe this.
>
> > as an admittedly simple example, i ran across this in oe-core's
> > scripts/contrib/documentation-audit.sh:
>
> > for pkg in `bitbake -s | awk '{ print \$1 }'`; do
>
> > ... snip ...
>
> > if [[ "$pkg" =~ ^meta- || "$pkg" =~ ^packagegroup- || "$pkg" =~ -image ]]; then
> > # Skip meta, task and image recipes
> > continue
> > fi
>
>
> > checking that the package name starts with "meta-" seems to
> > pretty clearly suggest that it will be treated differently than if it
> > doesn't. i'm sure no one is terribly worried about that particular
> > script, but it does seem to show an example of this.
>
> But that's checking *recipe* names, not layer names...
>
> Thus, you'll have to look for another example. ;)
ah, quite so, so perhaps the "meta-" prefix is not a real
requirement, just convention.
rday
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