On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Peter A. Bigot <p...@pabigot.com> wrote: > I can confirm this also works with the Gumstix Overo in a layer bbappend > that used SRC_URI_append_overo for additional patches. Thanks to you both > for getting it merged. > > I did come up with a question, though. The recipe uses: > > PV = "v2013.07+git${SRCPV}" > > which creates an informative but ugly ${BPN}. I'd like to use something > like: > > FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/${BPN}:" > > in the bbappend to simplify updates, but I don't want to have a directory > named u-boot-v2013.07+gitAUTOINC+62c175fbb8. For linux-yocto, this is > solved through introduction of ${LINUX_VERSION} allowing > ${PN}-${LINUX_VERSION}. > > Is there reason to create a parallel UBOOT_VERSION? > > Is there reason to have some way to access the default ${PV} inferred from > the recipe name before the base recipe overrode it? (Is there already some > way to get that value?) > > Is there a better approach than bbappend-in-layer that I should use for > adding patches required for a specific u-boot machine?
That's the right approach. Only when complexity warrants is it worth the effort to maintain a targeted git tree that manages changes via branches. So until the directories full of patches and conflicting features collapse on themselves, go with SRC_URIs and bbappends. Cheers, Bruce > > Peter > > > On 08/26/2013 12:55 PM, Saul Wold wrote: >> >> On 08/23/2013 09:57 AM, Laszlo Papp wrote: >>> >>> Any update? It would be nice not to miss the freeze ... ;-) >>> >> This has been merged, and I was informed by the QA team that it works >> correctly for the mpc8315e-rdb and beagleboard, but NOT the beagleboard XM. > > > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-core mailing list > Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org > http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core -- "Thou shalt not follow the NULL pointer, for chaos and madness await thee at its end" _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core