[yocto] Append to bblayers.conf and local.conf

Nicolas Dechesne nicolas.dechesne at linaro.org
Mon Apr 4 05:57:06 PDT 2016


On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 2:43 PM, Olsson Rikard (RBSN/ESW1)
<Rikard.Olsson at se.bosch.com> wrote:
> Thanks for your answer. Will these two files conf/auto.conf and conf/site.conf be able to handle changes for bblayers.conf as well?

no.

>
> For example we need to add meta-qt5 but would prefer to append to the layers already there and not add our changes into bblayers.conf to avoid merge work.
>

bblayers.conf is parsed by bitbake directly, and i don't think you can
use another file for it. Khem's suggestion to use "bitbake-layer
add-layer" would let you override bblayers.conf 'dynamically' without
having to archive it..



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