[yocto] Hob - proper way to select machine and customer layers

[jfabernathy]

On 06/21/2012 10:49 AM, jfabernathy wrote:
> So I thought I'd give hob a test. Basically, I wanted to do what I 
> could already do with the command line.
>
> Normally, after I set the environment variables, I edit the local.conf 
> to change my machine type and parallel processing options. Then I 
> point the download directory to a centralized one on my system, and 
> add some License statements and some CORE-IMAGE-EXTRA-INSTALL 
> statements for extra packages. Then I edit the bblayer.conf to had the 
> path to my layer and the meta-intel layers.
>
> To use Hob, I set my environment variable and the just ran hob.  It 
> was very slow going through the first 63 packages. I think this is 
> because parallel options had not been set and the packages were all 
> being downloaded again.  But after I got to the UI of hob, I got 
> errors adding my layers to get to the meta-intel layers I wanted.  So 
> I started over and edited local.conf and bblayer.conf prior to 
> launching hob.  Now I could see my machine from meta-intel, but I 
> could not add my layer in. Parsing errors.
>
> Before I report an error, I wanted to see if I have the hob startup 
> process right. The issues is around the right way to add 
> meta-intel/meta-cedartrail and my personal layer in my home directory.
>
> Any advice?
>
> JIm A
>
My experimenting tells me that currently Hob (denzil) only work with new 
added layers that are in the poky directory and not in your home 
directory.  This is a different requirement than normal command line 
usage of bitbake.

Jim A