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[Christopher Larson]

On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 1:49 AM, Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com
> wrote:

> On Tuesday 06 May 2014 23:35:09 Trevor Woerner wrote:
> > On 05/06/14 12:12, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > > So I'd hope that the machine listing in the layer index could be made
> > > to help with that.
> >
> > Absolutely, for raw recipe information or information on which MACHINEs
> > are supported the layer index would be a good choice.
> >
> > But there's a fair amount of difference between "MACHINE, layer, and
> > recipe definitions" versus "here's the FSL community information, they
> > use repo, here's where they keep their manifests, here are the manifests
> > they have available, these are the boards they support, and here is how
> > you run their setup script".
>
> Excuse my ignorance, but what do you mean by "manifests"?


A repo manifest is rather like a .gitmodules file, but out of band, in its
own repository. The manifest controls what repositories of what
branches/revisions get pulled down. A git url to the manifest is passed to
'repo init' to initialize the setup.
-- 
Christopher Larson
clarson at kergoth dot com
Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
Maintainer - Tslib
Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics