[yocto] PR and bbappends

[McClintock Matthew-B29882]

On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 5:34 AM, David Nyström <david.nystrom at enea.com> wrote:
> On 05/31/2012 04:01 PM, Khem Raj wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 3:54 AM, David Nyström<david.nystrom at enea.com>
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> Is there a good way to get the layer name ?, I want to add
>>> PR .= "+${LAYER_NAME}.0" to my bbappends for clarity and versioning when
>>> having multiple meta layers.
>>> Where a bbappend:s on package X can reside in one, two or more layers.
>>>
>> you could look into  bitbake-layers tool
>> bitbake-layers show-overlayed will show the recipes overlays
>> if thats the problem you are trying to solve
>>
> Thanks, I was unaware of that script. But not really want I want to do.
> We are going to have multiple BSP layers sourced from BSP suppliers, and
> customer specific layers on top of this.
> When it comes to testing, we want our test-objects(binary packages) to
> differ depending on which layers appended them,
> so that we can easily automate a testing procedure, and reduce possible
> permutations of testobjects.(For unit testing).
>
> Also, when you see bash_4.2-r2+meta-fsl-ppc.0+meta-ti.2_ppce500mc.ipk, you
> directly see who manipulated the contents
> of the bash package. And where eventual failures could originate from.

Some based layers should not modify certain packages. Which
meta-fsl-ppc is guilty of doing which I would like to cleanup. Changes
to packages should be moved up to a distro layer I believe?

-M