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

[Richard Purdie]

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.

My layers suggestion for bitbake would make it much easier to enable
this kind of thing for end users too...

Perhaps this would get people testing bitbake master? :)

Cheers,

Richard