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

2013-01-01 Thread Rudolf Streif
The meta- prefix for layers is purely customary convention and has been adopted as best practice. There is no technical reason for it. The only place where the name of a layer directory is referenced is in bblayers.conf. Technically, you can give your layer any name you want to as long as it is com

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] 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 -- ===