[bitbake-devel] bitbake-layers layerindex-fetch

[Paul Eggleton]

Hi Trevor,

On Friday 22 May 2015 17:57:46 Trevor Woerner wrote:
> I'm curious to know what heuristic "bitbake-layers layerindex-fetch"
> uses to determine where to place the fetched layers?
> 
> I asked my system to:
> 
>   $ bitbake-layers layerindex-fetch meta-qt5
> 
> and it keeps insisting on installing meta-qt5 and meta-openembedded
> under my openembedded-core layers resulting in:
> 
>   /z/master/layers/openembedded-core/meta-openembedded/meta-ruby \
>   /z/master/layers/openembedded-core/meta-qt5 \
> 
> Is there a way that I can tell bitbake-layers that my layers are located
> at /z/master/layers and have it work from there?

This is controlled by BBLAYERS_FETCH_DIR; by default this is set to 
"${COREBASE}" with ??= so you can set it to your preferred value in local.conf 
as desired. (We should definitely document this, I acknowledge at the moment it 
isn't documented anywhere.)

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre