[bitbake-devel] is bitbake's bitbake.conf even consulted?

[Chris Larson]

On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 6:59 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca>wrote:

>   prepared to embarrass myself yet again but in writing up something
> about PROVIDES, i was testing values of certain variables and
> concluded that the bitbake.conf file in the bitbake checkout isn't
> consulted, is that correct?
>
>   it seemed pretty obvious when i asked for the value of, for example,
> FETCHCOMMAND_svn, and was told it wasn't set.  (which isn't a bad
> thing since it's deprecated, anyway. :-)
>
>   i'm asking only since someone might be confused by the disparities
> between the two files, such as:
>
> 1) PF = "${PN}-${PV}-${PR}"
> 2) PF = "${PN}-${EXTENDPE}${PV}-${PR}"
>
>   so what is the rationale for bitbake's version of that file?  or am
> i misunderstanding something?
>

bitbake's bitbake.conf is a minimal example intended for anyone who might
want to use it outside of oe/yocto.
-- 
Christopher Larson
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