[yocto] [OE-core] Yocto Project Status WW09

[Rudolf J Streif]

> > > 
> > > * We're about to try and transition meta-yocto within meta-yocto to
> > > 
> > >   meta-poky. The amount of pain this is causing is horrible :(.
> > 
> > Thanks for doing this. Can you summarize the pain? Are there any
> > important lessons here?
> 
> The key lesson is our current "migration" code in OE-Core sucks and I
> have some patches in progress which rewrite pieces of it in a way that
> makes it more useful. I'm therefore trying to make some positives from
> it.
> 
> That said, I haven't found a way to make this work without leaving a
> dummy layer.conf in the old location since a missing layer.conf file is
> fatal to bitbake very early on before any migration code triggers.
> 
> More should become clear when I post the patches, I've been holding off
> that until I actually manage a patch set that works on the
> autobuilder...
> 
> Patches should be out over the weekend (in time for the freeze).

Sounds like a lot of work and potential for breaking things with little added 
value other than a more consistent naming. What was the rationale for making 
the change, if I may ask?

Thanks,
:rjs