Thank you. I had figured that out as you can see from my earlier post,
but somehow google groups got the replies out of order.

On Aug 19, 4:01 am, Robert Greenwalt <rgreenw...@google.com> wrote:
> you will need to set the PRODUCT_PACKAGE_OVERLAYS build time var in your
> product defining makefile.  This should be set to the relative path of your
> overlay dir.  The overlay dir contains a sparse mirror of the source tree
> with just the resource files you wish to overlay.
>
> For example, from the root of your dev tree:
> framework/base/core/res/res/values/config.xml - the real file in with all
> the other src files
> vendor/foo/product/MyProduct.mk (includes PRODUCT_PACKAGE_OVERLAYS :=
> vendor/foo/myoverlay)
> vendor/foo/myoverlay/framework/base/core/res/res/values/config.xml - the
> overlay copy, may only have this one file in myoverlay
>
> You should not modify the base/core/res makefile.
>
> R
>
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Naseer <nas...@codeaurora.org> wrote:
> > Thank you -- Can you please point me to any documentation on how to do
> > the overlay ?
> > I am assuming it will use make variables defined in device/$VENDOR./
> > $TARGET_PRODUCT
> > Will this also involve modifying the makefile in frameworks/base/core/
> > res ?
>
> > On Aug 18, 8:48 pm, Robert Greenwalt <rgreenw...@google.com> wrote:
> > > The build system provides an overlay feature that can be used for this.
> >  It
> > > gives aapt one or more overlay paths that get used to modify the base
> > > resource file (config.xml in your case).  The config.xml that would exist
> > in
> > > the overlay dir would only need to contain the values that you want to
> > > change.
>
> > > R
>
> > > On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 4:59 AM, Naseer <nas...@codeaurora.org> wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > I want to override values in frameworks/base/core/res/res/values/
> > > > config.xml based on the target product.
> > > > What is the best method to override only selected values from them ?
> > > > I do not want to directly change the xml files do avoid conflicts with
> > > > other targets and to avoid maintenance issues.
>
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > -Naseer
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