[OE-core] [PATCH 00/13] Remove usage of FILESPATH
Richard Purdie
richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org
Wed May 7 22:21:02 UTC 2014
On Wed, 2014-05-07 at 23:19 +0200, Petter Mabäcker wrote:
> Fixes [YOCTO #4497]
>
> We extend the search path in a number of recipes by setting FILESPATH,
> which is not really desirable since the manner in which we have done it
> can make the recipe harder to bbappend (and we explicitly advise modifying
> FILESPATH this in the manual). These should be changed to use FILESEXTRAPATHS
> to extend the path instead or use a default FILESPATH (e.g. BP, BPN or files).
Whilst FILESPATH is discouraged, so is putting files into "files"
directories so those changes are not an improvement.
Cheers,
Richard
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