[yocto] Using meta repositories from OpenEmbedded and Yocto projects

[Chris Larson]

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 7:46 AM, Elvis Dowson <elvis.dowson at gmail.com> wrote:
>        Can I re-use the meta-openembedded git repositories from
> openembedded.org and steve sakoman's meta-sakoman repositories (contains
> support for the Gumstix Overo board), and check it out inside a checkout of
> the yocto poky git repository, to take advantage of the latest yocto and
> openembedded recipes and build it for the Gumstix Overo board?
>
> for example:
>
> poky
> meta-openembedded  (from git://git.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded)
> meta-openembedded-contrib (from git://git.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded-contrib)
> meta-sakoman.git (from git://www.sakoman.com/git/meta-sakoman)
>
> I've used OpenEmbedded before, and this is my first time with Yocto, and I
> see a bunch of meta-* repositories, and was wondering if including them
> inside the main poky folder was the way to go, to add additional support
> from various sources.

Where the layers are doesn't matter. Put them wherever you want them,
just ensure you add their paths to build/conf/bblayers.conf's BBLAYERS
variable.
-- 
Christopher Larson