[bitbake-devel] [PATCH] action: bitbake-layers new plugin to create a layer

[Paul Eggleton]

(Brian reminded me of this, sorry for not replying earlier)

On Monday, 19 June 2017 5:00:18 PM CEST 
leonardo.sandoval.gonzalez at linux.intel.com wrote:
> From: Leonardo Sandoval <leonardo.sandoval.gonzalez at linux.intel.com>
> 
> Creates a simple layer with a example recipe, where the latter
> has just a single task (do_build). Layer's license is MIT and
> layer's priority defaults to 6. Recipe name and layer's priority
> can changed specified through the command line.

So I'm generally in favour of adding this functionality to bitbake-layers and 
making it more widely available in preference to yocto-layer. However, I'm a 
bit concerned about the template recipe - it really doesn't belong in bitbake. 
We could resolve that in one of two ways:

1) Look for the template within the metadata and provide one in OE-Core, or

2) Put the template *and* the plugin in OE-Core, since bitbake-layers should 
support loading plugins from the metadata

I don't mind which but I'd lean towards #2 since it will probably require less 
additional plumbing.

Additionally we'll probably want to change "yocto-layer create" to call this 
and show a deprecation warning for the next release or two, and then drop it 
afterwards.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre