[OE-core] [oe-core][PATCH 3/4] sstate-cache-management.sh: look in meta* above oe-core dir when looking for available tunes

[Paul Eggleton]

On Monday 03 September 2012 09:23:17 Martin Jansa wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 01:07:53PM +0100, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > On Sunday 02 September 2012 13:13:20 Martin Jansa wrote:
> > > * many layouts have other layers on the same level as oe-core checkout
> > 
> > This is beginning to indicate that this script really needs to actually
> > know something about your configuration rather than trying to guess it.
> You can pass more layers to script with:
> 
>   --extra-layer=<layer1>,<layer2>...<layern>
>         Specify the layer which will be used for searching the archs,
>         it will search the meta and meta-* layers in the top dir by
>         default, and will search meta, meta-*, <layer1>, <layer2>,
>         ...<layern> when specified. Use "," as the separator.
> 
> But nobody says what is "top dir", in my bblayers.conf it's the
> directory with oe-core and meta-* checkouts and I think this is common
> layout if you're not using some combo tool to merge all layers to
> oe-core checkout.
> 
> So this change only makes default search path a bit more usefull and
> then it filteres available arch anyway.

I don't dispute that your change is an improvement, I just think it would be a 
good future improvement to pick up the configuration from bitbake rather than 
working in the way it currently does.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre