[yocto] Reg: Career Building

2012-12-30 Thread GOPIKRISHNAN S
Hi Folks, Is it possible to build my career with Yocto Project for Building Linux Distros and other software. Especially in India? I am eager to know the career opportunities for Yocto Project professional. Now I am a basic Linux user with little Linux networking knowledge and some scripting k

Re: [yocto] dev manual is confusing as to whether a layer *must* be named "meta-..."

2012-12-30 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 30 Dec 2012, Bill Traynor wrote: > > > > On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 4:29 AM, Robert P. J. Day > wrote: > >   section 5.1.1 of dev manual: > > "Folders that are layers begin with the string meta." > >   section 5.1.2, immediately afterwards: > > "Traditionally, prepen

Re: [yocto] dev manual is confusing as to whether a layer *must* be named "meta-..."

2012-12-30 Thread Bill Traynor
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 4:29 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > section 5.1.1 of dev manual: > > "Folders that are layers begin with the string meta." > > section 5.1.2, immediately afterwards: > > "Traditionally, prepend the name of the folder with the string meta." > > those two statements ar

[yocto] [PATCH] Documentation: Typoes/grammos in Dev Manual, Section 5.1

2012-12-30 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day --- diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml index 6c406da..c7ec2b6 100644 --- a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml +++ b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common

[yocto] discussion of layers in dev manual uses a *really* bad example

2012-12-30 Thread Robert P. J. Day
more pedantry -- dev manual, section 5.1.2 talks about creating a new layer and recommends using the meta-yocto layer.conf as a starting point, which contains: # We have a conf and classes directory, add to BBPATH BBPATH := "${LAYERDIR}:${BBPATH}" the problem is that almost every o

[yocto] dev manual is confusing as to whether a layer *must* be named "meta-..."

2012-12-30 Thread Robert P. J. Day
section 5.1.1 of dev manual: "Folders that are layers begin with the string meta." section 5.1.2, immediately afterwards: "Traditionally, prepend the name of the folder with the string meta." those two statements are somewhat contradictory. rday -- ===