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

Tom Zanussi tom.zanussi at intel.com
Wed Oct 17 08:14:05 PDT 2012


On Wed, 2012-10-17 at 08:39 +0000, Tim O'Callaghan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 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?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Tim.
> [1] https://github.com/timoc/meta-bucket
> 

I do a similar thing - clone all the repos I can think of, and then have
OpenGrok index them all.  That makes everything available as a fully
searchable cross-referenced set of web pages.  Couldn't live without
it...

http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+opengrok/

Tom

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