[yocto] Yocto Development Manual Appendix B question

[Bruce Ashfield]

On 12-06-26 10:52 AM, jfabernathy wrote:
> In the example in The Developement Manual v1.2 in Appendix B Section
> B.1.7, it states that you need to put in the statement:
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> KSRC_linux_yocto_3_2 ?="/home/scottrif/linux-yocto-3.2.git"
>
> into the appropriate .bbappend file way now in the poky-extra directory
> structure. If I look at that file, |linux-yocto_3.2.bbappend| , I seen a
> SRC_URI line, immediately after our inserted KSRC statement, that is
> commented out:
>
> # SRC_URI =
> "git://${KSRC_linux_yocto_3_2};protocol=file;nocheckout=1;branch=${KBRANCH},meta;name=machine,meta"
>
> Should that line be uncommented or is the SRC_URI already defaulted
> somewhere to use the newly defined KSRC_linux_yocto_3_2 variable?

It should be uncommented. I commented them by default, since the extras
repository is a bit of a collection ground. If they are uncommented, and
combined with the AUTOREV also set in the file, you are forced to fix
all files, versus just the one you want.

Cheers,

Bruce

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