[oe] There is no LAYERVERSION and LAYERDEPENDS for most meta-FOO layers

[Joe MacDonald]

[Re: [oe] There is no LAYERVERSION and LAYERDEPENDS for most meta-FOO layers] On 14.11.24 (Mon 11:13) Mike Looijmans wrote:

> On 11/24/2014 09:53 AM, Huang, Jie (Jackie) wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I know LAYERVERSION is optional but I think LAYERDEPENDS is required and at least we should specify the main oe-core,
> >but I found only meta-networking and meta-webser have this:
> >
> >$ grep -r LAYERDEPENDS *
> >meta-networking/conf/layer.conf:LAYERDEPENDS_networking-layer = "core"
> >meta-networking/conf/layer.conf:LAYERDEPENDS_networking-layer = "openembedded-layer"
> >meta-networking/conf/layer.conf:LAYERDEPENDS_networking-layer = "meta-python"
> >meta-webserver/conf/layer.conf:LAYERDEPENDS_webserver = "core"
> >$ grep -r LAYERVERSION *
> >meta-networking/conf/layer.conf:LAYERVERSION_networking-layer = "1"
> >meta-webserver/conf/layer.conf:LAYERVERSION_webserver = "1"
> >
> >I found dependencies section in README for most of the meta-FOO layers, but no definition of LAYERDEPENDS in the layer.conf.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Jackie
> >
> 
> And reading this:
> 
> LAYERDEPENDS_networking-layer = "core"
> LAYERDEPENDS_networking-layer = "openembedded-layer"
> LAYERDEPENDS_networking-layer = "meta-python"
> 
> makes me wonder whether:
> - The author forgot to use "+=" instead of "="; or
> - The syntax of LAYERDEPENDS is different from what the rest of the
> variables use (in that case, an RFC may be in order here); or
> - These lines are parsed by something else than bitbake's regular parser.

I wondered that too.

% bitbake -e | grep LAYERDEPENDS_networking
# $LAYERDEPENDS_networking-layer [3 operations]
LAYERDEPENDS_networking-layer="meta-python"

That answers that, then.  Guess I'll go fix that up.  :-)

-J.

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> 
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