[yocto] How to avoid re-creating a recipe (+my meta-bucket approach)

[Paul Eggleton]

On Wednesday 17 October 2012 08:39:36 Tim O'Callaghan wrote:
> After seeing the lmsensors thread float by I thought it about time I started
> the discussion on how people manage to avoid re-inventing recipes, and to
> get the ball rolling, I thought I would describe mine.
> 
> As I do not have the any idea what recipes may be kicking about, I devised
> what I call the meta-bucket approach. It is pretty simple, I have a script
> that clones every existing OE/Yocto repository I know about into one easily
> grep-able place[1].
> 
> The to the main question, how are others managing this?

I clone the layer repositories most likely to hold new recipes and then use 
some scripts I wrote to process them into a list of recipes that can be easily 
searched using grep. I wouldn't mind sharing those scripts if some people 
would find them useful.

However, what I hope we can do in the 1.4 timeframe would be to implement my 
proposal here:

 https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3272

This would provide us with a way to search all published layers down to the 
recipe level from the web.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre