[yocto] Help with DISTRO settings

[Khem Raj]

> On Jul 25, 2016, at 8:31 PM, Edward Wingate <edwingate8 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 1:27 AM, Nicolas Dechesne
> <nicolas.dechesne at linaro.org> wrote:
>> hmm. you shouldn't set DISTRO in conf/layer.conf, that doesn't sound
>> right. DISTRO needs to be set in local.conf (or any of the other build
>> specific conf files).
> 
> I agree, I don't know why I had it in conf/layer.conf.  Just
> beginner's mistake.
> 
> I moved DISTRO to local.conf (changed the existing DISTRO ?= "poky" to
> DISTRO ?= "mydistro") and it still works.  But if I remove DISTRO from
> conf/distro/mydistro.conf, DISTRO will revert to "poky", even though
> it is set to my "mydistro" in local.conf.  So it seems I have to have
> it in both places.

in your mydistro.conf you should first set the settings that you want to customize
then include conf/distro/poky.conf not other way around. May be we should change poky.conf
to use ??= so the substitution happens at the end of parsing. but thats for another time.
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