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

[Philip Balister]

On 10/17/2012 01:49 AM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> 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.

This is an excellent idea!

Philip