[bitbake-devel] bitbake-layers layerindex-fetch
Trevor Woerner
twoerner at gmail.com
Fri May 29 18:21:16 UTC 2015
Hi Paul,
On 05/26/15 09:51, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> 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.
Awesome, thanks! :-)
> (We should definitely document this, I acknowledge at the moment it
> isn't documented anywhere.)
>
I've sent a patch for the Bitbake User's Manual.
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