On Wednesday 04 February 2015 10:47:37 ChenQi wrote: > On 02/03/2015 05:23 PM, erwin.rieger....@rohde-schwarz.com wrote: > > I have a working solution now, but it is not as clean as i would like > > it to be and some new questions arose with it. > > > > My current setup consists of a busybox.bbappend file that is used to > > customize the rootfs > > busybox (defconfig, some /etc files and so on) and a > > busybox-initramfs.bb recipe for the initramfs busybox (as you > > suggested). > > > > The busybox.bbappend (see below) is straight forward, so no problem > > with that. > > > > To create the busybox-initramfs.bb in my custom layer, i have included > > the base busybox recipe from the meta layer with > > an 'require' statement. > > > > Then i had to extend the FILESEXTRAPATHS variable to point back to the > > base recipe files-directory since it > > no longer found the SRC_URI files from meta/busybox.bb and > > meta/busybox.inc. See the BUSYBOXBASEDIR > > variable in the busybox-initramfs.bb below. > > > > I feel that his construct is not that elegant, so here comes the > > f*irst question*: > > > > Is there a nicer/cleaner way to include/reference the source files > > from the base busybox recipe in the meta layer? > > How about using "${COREBASE}/meta/recipes-core/busybox"? I didn't try it > out, so I'm not sure whether it works.
You shouldn't need ${COREBASE}/meta/ - the following should work just fine (which is already in busybox-initramfs.bb): require recipes-core/busybox/busybox_${PV}.bb > > The *second question* concerns the versioning: The busybox.bbappend > > file uses a 'version wildcard' (_%) to > > match all versions of the base busybox recipe. But in > > the busybox-initramfs.bb recipe i have to hardwire the > > version of the base recipe. > > How about change the recipe name to busybox-initramfs_1.22.1.bb? So that > the PV value is automatically extracted from the recipe name and there's > no need to set it in the recipe. I think this is really the only practical way to handle this. > > How can i use a 'version wildcard' in a 'require' statement? > > It's not supported, as far as I know. It isn't, no. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto