[oe] [RFC] recipes/images/${distro}

[Tom Rini]

On Sun, 2010-02-28 at 03:34 +0000, Graeme Gregory wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 08:46:47PM +0000, Phil Blundell wrote:
> > On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 16:56 +0000, Graeme Gregory wrote:
> > > NAK on creating extra levels.
> > > 
> > > Changing the level where recipes are held is not an option do to the way
> > > you tell bitbake how to find them.
> > > 
> > > BBFILES = "${OE}/org.openembedded.dev/recipes/*/*.bb"
> > 
> > Is that really such a big deal?  We seemed to manage to switch BBFILES
> > from /packages/ to /recipes/ without any major casualties, and I would
> > have thought that adding an extra level in there would be equally
> > straightforward.  Or of course, even better, the distro-specific recipes
> > could go in an overlay which the distro config would select.
> > 
> I have been talking about using overlays for distros at every OE meetup
> since kergoth made it easy to do. So I fully support that idea.

This would also move a bunch of the distro overrides into amend.inc
files in the in-tree distro overlay, just like out of tree users.  This
might help encourage problems to be fixed or better dealt with, perhaps.

-- 
Tom Rini <tom_rini at mentor.com>
Mentor Graphics Corporation