[oe] [PATCH] bitbake.conf: rework FILESPATH generation.

[Otavio Salvador]

Chris Larson <clarson at kergoth.com> writes:

> Heh, already sent this reply out, but from the wrong email address.
> This time it should actually hit the list...
>
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Denys Dmytriyenko <denis at denix.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 04:28:52PM -0700, Chris Larson wrote:
>>> From: Chris Larson <clarson at mvista.com>
>>>
>>> Rework FILESPATH generation to be done in bitbake.conf, avoiding the
>>> confusion about it being in multiple places.  Adds FILESPATHBASE and
>>> FILESPATHPKG which can be manipulated rather than manipulating FILESPATH
>>> directly.
>>>
>>> One usage possibility:
>>>
>>> FILESPATHBASE =. "${TOPDIR}/files:"
>>>
>>> Which would let me provide a custom busybox config for this build by
>>> copying the defconfig from the openembedded metadata into my
>>> build/files/busybox-1.0/ directory, for example.
>>
>> Can you please provide more details on this example? Thanks.
>
> Normally, all paths in FILESPATH are relative to FILE_DIRNAME, the
> location of the recipe being operated against.  With this change, you
> can place files which are in SRC_URI as file:// urls in paths relative
> to other locations.
>
> You can do package customizations via changes to file:// files without
> mucking up the local clone of the openembedded repository.
>
> My intent is to create a class to facilitate running make menuconfig
> on your kernel and busybox, and retain those changes.  Today, people
> either go into workdir and customize it there, but those changes are
> lost when you clean the package, or they overwrite files in the
> metadata repository, which can lead to conflicts, and is just all
> around more annoying to work with.  It's better to be able to have per
> build or site wide overrides of those files.

I second it; specially the "make menuconfig" feature :-)

I lose a kernel config yestarday by mistake due this :P

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