[yocto] is it not a *requirement* that layers start with "meta-"?

[Anders Darander]

* Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> [150105 18:09]:

> On Mon, 5 Jan 2015, Rifenbark, Scott M wrote:

> > If anyone can locate some scripts or something that actually does
> > require "meta-" to be prepended please let me know.  That changes
> > how we describe this.

>   as an admittedly simple example, i ran across this in oe-core's
> scripts/contrib/documentation-audit.sh:

> for pkg in `bitbake -s | awk '{ print \$1 }'`; do

>	... snip ...

>         if [[ "$pkg" =~ ^meta- || "$pkg" =~ ^packagegroup- || "$pkg" =~ -image ]]; then
>                 # Skip meta, task and image recipes
>                 continue
>         fi


>   checking that the package name starts with "meta-" seems to
> pretty clearly suggest that it will be treated differently than if it
> doesn't. i'm sure no one is terribly worried about that particular
> script, but it does seem to show an example of this.

But that's checking *recipe* names, not layer names...

Thus, you'll have to look for another example. ;)

Cheers,
Anders

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Anders Darander
ChargeStorm AB / eStorm AB