[yocto] Moving angstrom under the yocto banner

Chris Larson clarson at kergoth.com
Sat Mar 31 17:51:50 PDT 2012


On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think the repository format used for poky in yocto project
> could also be confusing things. Since it does not clone openembedded-core
> or bitbake from upstream locations but maintains a copy of its own. even
> though they are ditto copies of upstream it still has logical separation
> that can be source of confusion. So if there was a meta-poky that defined
> the distro policies and another integration layer that
> sources openembedded-core and bitbake meta-poky and other layers
> would make it much clearer.
>
> As such OE-Core is distroless as we all know and can be built standalone
> and poky uses most of defaults so meta-poky could be a thin layer on top
> right now I think poky combines distro policy layer and integration
> layer into one
> which could also be source of confusion. I think creating distinct layers
> for these two will clear up the air quite a bit.

I agree, and would love to see that happen.
-- 
Christopher Larson



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