[OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] layerindex.bbclass: Add ability to fetch layers from layer index

[Chong Lu]

On 01/07/2015 05:20 PM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> Hi Chong,
>
> On Wednesday 07 January 2015 14:35:42 Chong Lu wrote:
>> It maybe depends on other layers when one layer is added to BBLAYERS. If
>> define LAYERDEPENDS variable in this layer, we will get error from bitbake.
>> But sometimes, we don't have defined. Add a mechanism to fetch layers from
>> layer index and update bblayers.conf as appropriate. The layer index stores
>> dependencies of all layers. Query dependency from layer index and fetch
>> layer repo, then add this layer to BBLAYERS.
> Hmm, this is certainly interesting but not quite what I had in mind - I was
> thinking rather that bitbake-layers would be extended and it would be an
> explicit operation to add a layer from the layer index + all of its
> dependencies. We can of course also have something semi-automatic like this
> class, but the manual tool ought to come first IMHO (which the class could then
> make use of).
>
> Cheers,
> Paul

Hi Paul,

Thanks for your reply. I will try to extend bitbake-layers.

Best Regards
Chong

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