[yocto] Hob question: meta-yocto layer and 'defaultsetup' distro option

[Barros Pena, Belen]

Great. Thanks, Dongxiao.

I think it is a question of changing the label to make it a bit more
self-explanatory, then. I'll try to come up with something.

Cheers

Belen

On 03/07/2012 13:00, "Xu, Dongxiao" <dongxiao.xu at intel.com> wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Barros Pena, Belen
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2012 7:04 PM
>> To: Khem Raj; Wang, Shane; Xu, Dongxiao
>> Cc: yocto
>> Subject: Re: [yocto] Hob question: meta-yocto layer and 'defaultsetup'
>>distro
>> option
>> 
>> Thanks, Khem.
>> 
>> Just to make sure I understand this correctly: if I don't use the
>>meta-yocto layer,
>> OE-Core should provide reference distro policies that allow me to build
>>an
>> image. So I guess the 'defaultsetup' option in Hob is referring to
>>those OE-Core
>> policies. Shane, Dongxiao: could you confirm if this is the case?
>
>Yes, actually "defaultsetup" will be applied in default for any kind of
>layer settings, including the default OE-Core. The difference is, OE-Core
>only applies "defaultsetup", while for meta-yocto layer, we can add
>additional distro policies (poky, poky-bleeding, etc) to override some of
>the "defaultsetup" settings.
>
>Thanks,
>Dongxiao
>
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> Belen
>> 
>> On 02/07/2012 17:53, "Khem Raj" <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> >On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Barros Pena, Belen
>> ><belen.barros.pena at intel.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> If I delete the meta-yocto layer, am I supposed to provide the distro
>> >> to be used via a layer or some other means?
>> >
>> >OE-Core has reference distro policies which are enough to generate
>> >images by just using OE-Core and that is what happens when you drop
>> >meta-yocto its testing the reference distro setup from OE-Core
>> >
>> >
>

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