On Tue, 26 Jun 2012, Paul Eggleton wrote: > On Tuesday 26 June 2012 11:45:50 Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > since the ubiquitous reaction to complaining about something is > > always, "don't just whine, do something about it," i'm doing that. > > i've started a personal yocto FAQ, based on questions either i've > > asked myself, or colleagues or clients have asked me, and i'm posting > > them here (obviously a work in progress, typed in over the last hour): > > > > http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Yocto_FAQ > > > > i'm collecting questions that clearly belong in a "how do i do X?" > > FAQ and, even if i don't know the answer, i'm still going to add the > > question to remind me to *find* the answer. > > Just looking at that page, a couple of items spring to mind: > > 1) Why are you pointing people to the prefile/postfile options in preference > to > just putting the "common, personal configuration" in local.conf?
i thought that was the technique for centralizing personal config preferences that you *didn't* want to manually copy into every local.conf file you created. if you add that personal content into each local.conf, then of course you don't need those options. > 2) Your IMAGE_INSTALL_append example needs a leading space in the string or it > will almost certainly not work (or at least, it will only work when there's > already a trailing space in the value of IMAGE_INSTALL). whoops, quite so. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto