[yocto] Using a poky recipe's files in a custom recipe

[Philip Balister]

On 12/15/2017 08:36 AM, colin.helliwell at ln-systems.com wrote:
> The current Poky I'm using (krogoth) has a recipe for dropbear, but I want
> to upgrade to use the latest version of dropbear.
> For source control reasons, I don't want to modify what's in
> meta/recipes-core/dropbear and therefore want to have my own recipe in my
> own layer. Yet for cleanliness I'd also prefer not to have to replicate all
> its .inc file etc in my own layer.
> Is there a clean way to be able to include meta's files within my own
> recipe? Is it a case of some sort of FILESEXTRAPATHS entry, and what would
> be the best way to cross reference to the poky layer?
>

I'm thinking if you

require recipes-core/dropbear/dropbear.inc

it uses BBPATH to search for the inc file, so it will pick up the one in
meta.

Philip