[yocto] BITBAKE ADD-LAYER | HELP!!

[Andre McCurdy]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 12:52 AM, Dhanush K.S <dhanush.ks at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello MailingList,
>
> I just upgraded yocto to the latest release (Sumo 19.0 /Yocto 2.5.1).
> Currently i am trying to add the meta-openembedded layer to my
> conf/bblayers.conf using the command "bitbake-layers add-layer
> DIRECTORY_PATH/LAYER".
>
> But I am getting parseError at times.
>
> Is it absolutely necessary to checkout the meta-openembedded layer to the
> same Branch as that of the Yocto Version?

Yes, it is. Do your errors go away if you do that?

> or is it alright to stay in the
> master Branch?
> I can add the meta-oe sub-layer while on master but i get parseError when on
> the Sumo branch.
> I am not able to add the meta-python and meta-networking sub-layers of
> meta-openembedded to the conf/bblayers.conf file without getting parse
> errors. (meta-networking sub-layer depends on meta-python, so until I
> resolve that I cannot add this)
>
>  [ac500v3 at localhost build-2.5]$ bitbake-layers add-layer
> /opt/ac500/yocto/trunk/yocto/next/meta-openembedded/meta-python/
> NOTE: Starting bitbake server...
> Loading cache: 100%
> |############################################################################################################################################################################################################################################|
> Time: 0:00:00
> Loaded 499 entries from dependency cache.
> ERROR: ParseError at
> /opt/ac500/yocto/trunk/yocto/next/meta-openembedded/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python-pbr_4.2.0.bb:3:
> Could not include required file recipes-devtools/python/python-pbr.inc
> | ETA:  --:--:--
>
> Summary: There was 1 ERROR message shown, returning a non-zero exit code.
> ERROR: Parse failure with the specified layer added
>
> What and where am I going wrong?
>
>
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best Regards,
> Dhanush Keshava Reddy Soppahalli
> Mob: +4915216144064
>
> --
> _______________________________________________
> yocto mailing list
> yocto at yoctoproject.org
> https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
>