Dell - Internal Use - Confidential We use the google android "repo" tool plus 'externalsrc' to great effect. 3 generations now, across now 6-ish different products and dozens of releases at this point. It checks out poky, our layer, our source mirror, and our internal sources all at once. -- Michael
-----Original Message----- From: yocto-boun...@yoctoproject.org [mailto:yocto-boun...@yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Paul Eggleton Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2015 3:32 AM To: Trevor Woerner Cc: yocto@yoctoproject.org Subject: Re: [yocto] creating images which include actively developed applications On Friday 01 May 2015 16:25:38 Trevor Woerner wrote: > On 04/22/15 13:58, Paul Eggleton wrote: > > On Wednesday 22 April 2015 15:32:06 Brian Karcz wrote: > >> Is there a way to create a recipe to build actively developed code > >> located in an external source directory? Basically skip the fetch > >> and unpack steps and always execute the compile and populate steps > >> each time and image is built? > > > > Indeed there is: > > > > http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/dev-manual/dev-manual.html# > > buildi > > ng-software-from-an-external-source > > Paul, I'm surprised you suggested externalsrc instead of just > mentioning devtool right from the start (doubly-surprised since you're > the person who wrote devtool!). Using devtool the "administration" (of > creating a recipe, etc) is done for you, no? > > http://twoerner.blogspot.ca/2015/01/the-yocto-project-introducing-devt > ool.ht > ml Well, I would have, except this doesn't quite seem like the same case as devtool is designed for (which is "temporary" switching of the source for development - AIUI Brian was looking for something more permanent.) Cheers, Paul -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
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