[yocto] creating images which include actively developed applications

[Michael_E_Brown at Dell.com]

Dell - Internal Use - Confidential
We use the google android "repo" tool plus 'externalsrc' to great effect. 3 generations now, across now 6-ish different products and dozens of releases at this point. It checks out poky, our layer, our source mirror, and our internal sources all at once.
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Michael

-----Original Message-----
From: yocto-bounces at yoctoproject.org [mailto:yocto-bounces at yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Paul Eggleton
Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2015 3:32 AM
To: Trevor Woerner
Cc: yocto at yoctoproject.org
Subject: Re: [yocto] creating images which include actively developed applications

On Friday 01 May 2015 16:25:38 Trevor Woerner wrote:
> On 04/22/15 13:58, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > On Wednesday 22 April 2015 15:32:06 Brian Karcz wrote:
> >> Is there a way to create a recipe to build actively developed code
> >> located in an external source directory? Basically skip the fetch
> >> and unpack steps and always execute the compile and populate steps
> >> each time and image is built?
> >
> > Indeed there is:
> >
> > http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/dev-manual/dev-manual.html#
> > buildi
> > ng-software-from-an-external-source
>
> Paul, I'm surprised you suggested externalsrc instead of just
> mentioning devtool right from the start (doubly-surprised since you're
> the person who wrote devtool!). Using devtool the "administration" (of
> creating a recipe, etc) is done for you, no?
>
> http://twoerner.blogspot.ca/2015/01/the-yocto-project-introducing-devt
> ool.ht
> ml

Well, I would have, except this doesn't quite seem like the same case as devtool is designed for (which is "temporary" switching of the source for development - AIUI Brian was looking for something more permanent.)

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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