[yocto] Sharing a source repository

[Chris Trobridge]

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> Subject: Re: [yocto] Sharing a source repository
>> Or is there an idiomatic way to pull in a repository in one recipe
>> and then reference that from other recipes? I can think of something
>> that would work but would probably be breaking the spirit (eg sym
>> -linking the git directory somewhere commonly accessible to the other
>> recipes). This would also have the disadvantage of pulling the whole
>> repository in even only small part was actually required.
>
> You could look at what we do with gcc and the gcc-source recipe. Its
> works there but its not common place and requires workarounds in some
> corner cases like the sstate checksum debugging code.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard

Thanks Richard.  I think in this case I will investigate git subpaths as we have a collection of associated projects more than one project rebuilt in different configurations.    It is better to stick to the better used paths!

Cheers,
Chris