[oe] Splitting meta-oe?

[Otavio Salvador]

On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 11:58 AM, Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly at intel.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2018-02-21 at 14:14 +0000, Burton, Ross wrote:
>> > But that kind of mechanism seems highly prone to breakage and
>> > likely to
>> > be highly contentious even if it was shown to be reliable, so it
>> > may not
>> > get beyond a "that'd be nice" thing for me.
>> >
>> > Unless someone else has already implemented it and I'm just not
>> > aware of
>> > how to use it?  :-)
>> >
>>
>> meta-freescale (iirc) does this, conditionally adds
>> sub-layers to BBLAYERS based on what other layers are already
>> enabled.
>
> The approach used by meta-freescale works with older releases.
> BBFILES_DYNAMIC [1] (supported by bitbake 1.36/Yocto 2.4) is a bit more
> robust.
>
> [1] https://patchwork.openembedded.org/patch/140532/

That's nice; I will update our use for rocko and beyond! :-)

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