[yocto] <rant>the current yocto FAQ is pretty much valueless</rant>

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Tue, 26 Jun 2012, Paul Eggleton wrote:

> On Tuesday 26 June 2012 13:05:21 Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > On Tue, 26 Jun 2012, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 26 June 2012 12:51:15 Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > > >   ok, that makes sense.  but would it also make sense for bitbake to
> > > > perhaps support another option that *does* allow personal content to,
> > > > say, be effectively appended to one's local.conf.  for instance, every
> > > > single local.conf i create immediately gets this added to the end:
> > > >
> > > > SOURCE_MIRROR_URL ?= "file:///home/rpjday/dl/"
> > > > INHERIT += "own-mirrors"
> > > > BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS = "1"
> > > > # BB_NO_NETWORK = "1"
> > >
> > > OK, looking at the settings you've listed, I think these are the
> > > kinds of things that site.conf was invented for - stuff that is
> > > specific not to the builds you are doing but to the host machine /
> > > site. You can simply put these settings in a file called site.conf
> > > next to local.conf and they'll be read from there; for new build
> > > directories you can just copy it in or symlink it from some common
> > > location.
> >
> >   that still requires just a touch of user intervention.  no totally
> > automatic way to do that, then?  it's at least an improvement over
> > manual copying, thanks.
>
> I have thought about this - it would be great if oe-init-build-env could
> copy/symlink your customised version from somewhere automatically every time;
> however the question would be how would it know where to copy it from? I'm not
> sure an added command-line option would be much better than just getting
> people to copy/symlink it in manually.

  that's fine, i'll at least note this shortcut.

rday

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