On 2014-02-24 12:51, John Weber wrote: > Here is a question someone might be able to quickly answer. > > I want to be able to override the SRCREV, SRCBRANCH, and the git repository > for > the kernel recipe in local.conf. I like to do this so that I can do local > hacking on a kernel without having to edit the recipe files themselves, and I > find that managing local.conf is easier when I'm changing SRCREVs a lot. > > I've been able to override SRCBRANCH by doing this: > > In recipes-kernel/linux/linux-wandboard.inc: > > SRCBRANCH ??= "master" > > The default is set in recipes-kernel/linux/linux-wandboard_3.10.17.bb: > > SRCBRANCH ?= "<the-default-branch>" > > Then, in local.conf, I can override it: > > SRCBRANCH_linux-wandboard = "<my-local-hacking-branch>" > > This works fine for SRCBRANCH. If I do the same thing with SRCREV, it doesn't > seem to work. I've done this: > > In linux-wandboard_3.10.17.bb: > > SRCREV ??= "<default big long commit id>" > > In local.conf: > > SRCREV_linux-wandboard = "<my local branch commit id>" > > I always get the checkout of the SRCREV assignment done in the recipe file, > not > the one I set in local.conf. > > Any idea why? The only thing I can think of is that SRCREV is evaluated > completely before > local.conf settings are evaluated.
You can't do this in local.conf The best way is to have another layer with a .bbappend for that recipe. You can then override these variables in that file. -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | Consulting for the MLB Associates | Embedded world ------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ meta-freescale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/meta-freescale
