[yocto] Documenting YP Development Environment in more detail - user configuration

[Rifenbark, Scott M]

Jerrod,

Thanks for the feedback in this area.  Your observations are pretty much in line with what I got from Paul Eggleton, who is on the YP Team.  I am going to reduce what is revealed file-wise in the meta-yocto layer.  Turns out that auto.conf and site.conf are files that a user would have to hand-create if they even wanted them.  We happen to provide a sample for site.conf only.  The auto.conf file would be a file that could be created and written to by an autobuilder.  The auto.conf file could contain settings that would be similar to what you would see in a local.conf file.  My understanding is that it exists mainly for autobuilders to stuff things into.  I will note this in the section I'm developing here for this configuration stuff.

Machine, distro, and policies and all that type of configuration is going to be covered in my next little submission that talks about layers and their role regarding what they feed into the whole process.

Thanks,
Scott

From: Jerrod Peach [mailto:peachj at lexmark.com]
Sent: Monday, June 24, 2013 6:00 AM
To: Rifenbark, Scott M
Cc: yocto at yoctoproject.org
Subject: Re: [yocto] Documenting YP Development Environment in more detail - user configuration

Scott,

I think the general diagram looks pretty good, although I'd argue there's a little too much detail in the file list being shown, or else some of this new stuff is going to be useful in 1.5 when it's not doing anything in 1.4.  Here are the files I see as excessive:

In meta-yocto:

  *   local.conf.example.extended
  *   site.conf.sample
  *   auto.conf (That's not even present in my 1.4 workspace.  Is this going to be something new in 1.5?)
In the build directory (these files aren't even present for me in 1.4):

  *   site.conf
  *   auto.conf
Also, I don't see anything specifying machines.  Do you want to break that out here, or are you thinking that's going to come into play somewhere else?  If you're thinking of breaking out machines elsewhere, I'd argue that distros are on a similar level of detail and then also don't belong on this chart.

Kind regards,

Jerrod

On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 11:52 PM, Rifenbark, Scott M <scott.m.rifenbark at intel.com<mailto:scott.m.rifenbark at intel.com>> wrote:
Hi,

I am going to start throwing these diagrams out to the mailing list and see if I can get any feedback.  This attached figure dives into user configuration.  Any and all discussion, correction, suggestions are welcome.

Scott

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Rifenbark, Scott M
>Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 1:22 AM
>To: Paul Eggleton; Burton, Ross
>Subject: user configuration
>
>Paul and Ross,
>
>Attached is a sample figure that focuses on "User Configuration."  The
>illustration attempts to reveal where user configuration data comes from
>and what processes and user-driven commands are related to it.  Right
>now, BitBake is simply a box.
>
>If you can, give me some comments on this.  I would like to hear on
>level of detail as well as technical accuracy.
>
>Thanks,
>Scott
>
>Scott Rifenbark
>Intel Corporation
>Yocto Project Documentation
>503.712.2702<tel:503.712.2702>
>503.341.0418<tel:503.341.0418> (cell)


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