[OE-core] Features in Yocto Project 1.7

[Otavio Salvador]

Hello David,

On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 7:47 AM, David Nyström <david.nystrom at enea.com> wrote:
> On 2014-03-25 15:31, David Nyström wrote:
>>
>> On 2014-03-24 17:00, Richard Purdie wrote:
>>>
>>> As development on 1.6 finishes up, its time to think about what we
>>> should be doing in the 1.7 cycle.
>>>
>>> I think from my perspective, in 1.7 I'd like to see us looking at
>>> "Developer Workflow". Its a generic topic which I think covered multiple
>>> areas (in no particular order):
>>>
>>> * the ADT/SDK and how it intergrates into the rest of the system
>>
>>
>>> * toaster
>>> * python devshell
>>> * exteralsrc.bbclass
>>> * memory resident bitbake
>>> * how a standalone app developer might build an image
>>
>>
>> +1
>> My wishlist:
>>
>> 1. Assembly of an image from a package repository using the SDK.
>> 2. Ability to easily package multiple kernel flavours(builds with
>> different kernel configs) with linux related bbclass:es.
>
>
> 3. layer based repository splitting.
> --
> When having multiple users of a base repository. Ease management of
> customized repos, by having he ability to mark layers as "split layers",
> this would yield a separate repo per "split layer", which would contain
> packages modified/created by this layer.

So you mean:

 * base package feed
 * meta-qt5 package feed

and in case meta-qt5 adds a bbappend, in a existing recipe, what will
be the behavior?

> Said packages would also be built for the base repo, but without split-layer
> modifications.
>
> A customized distro would use a compound of the base repo + split repo,
> where the split repo would have higher priority.
>
> I guess this could mean one deploy directory per split-layer.

This part is easy as all package managers we use has support for it (I
think) so it is a matter of proper generating those and add a method
to include it in the image, the first part is the most complicated one
I think...

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