[oe] Using EXTERNALSRC in practice

[Jérémy Rosen]

On 20/06/2016 14:08, Ulf Samuelsson wrote:
> We have a meta-layer which builds the kernel.
>
> This contains among other things:
>
> FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend_<machine> = "${THIS_DIR}/<machine>"
>
> SRC_URI = "git://<server>/<repo.git>;protocol=ssh;branch=<branch>"
> SRC_URI += "file://defconfig"
>
> PV = "...+git${SRCPV}"
> SRCREV = "<shaid>"
> ...
>
> Would like to have an option to build the kernel with external source.
> That option should be easy to enable/disable
>
[skip the rest]

What you are describing here is very close to how the devtool works. I 
think it can deal with kernel packages in its latest iteration

did you have a look at that tool ? does it satisfy your need ? if not, 
what would it need to do what you want...