[Openembedded-architecture] OEDEM - Setup program

[Paul Eggleton]

On Wednesday, 8 March 2017 5:55:26 AM NZDT Mark Hatle wrote:
> On 3/7/17 10:40 AM, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> > And how do they get indexed? What's the criteria for a layer to appear in
> > the "Distro" section?
> 
> A layer is grouped by a type that the user defines when they submit the
> layer. (If your layer is listed under the wrong 'type', then edit it and
> fix it -- assuming your one the owner of the layer.)

I am not aware of any layers having an incorrect type - FWIW this is one of 
the short list of things I check when I am reviewing submissions.

> The grouping is
> currently only used for reference, nothing more.  (I assume at some point
> the YP compatible script will use it as a key to determine if the layer is
> properly represented.)
> 
> The Distro 'field' within a layer's index is what was recently corrected.

For clarity, since there were two separate things a little bit mixed together 
in Mark's explanation:

1) There has been no change to the behaviour or values in the layer type field 
(Core / distro / machine / software / misc).

2) What was just corrected was the collection of distro configurations (conf/
distro/*), now displayed under "Distros" in the layer index (click "Distros" 
then "Search" with no keyword to see all indexed distros). This was a recently 
introduced feature, but collection was being blocked by a failure to reload 
data on master caused by a bug that I introduced earlier.

3) The layer type field has no bearing on whether distro conf files are found 
and listed under "Distros" in the index.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre