[OE-core] appears to be inconsistency re: base-files between oe-core and meta-angstrom

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 29 Aug 2013, Phil Blundell wrote:

> On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 07:37 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >   distroless. i realize i *could* set a value for DISTRO, but it would
> > seem that i shouldn't have to in order to avoid a build error.
>
> Well, either you're using angstrom or you aren't.  If you do want to
> use it then you ought to set DISTRO appropriately, and if you don't
> want to use it then you probably oughtn't to have the angstrom layer
> included at all.
>
> Trying to use the angstrom .bbappends and files with a different (or
> no) distro configuration will give you a set of metadata that's
> neither one thing nor the other and, even if you didn't get a build
> error, there's no guarantee that the resulting image would actually
> work.

  ah, gotcha. so if i want to live dangerously, i can select
"angstrom-next"?

rday

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