On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 6:27 AM, Patrick Ohly <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2018-02-22 at 07:53 +0100, Jonas Bonn wrote: >> On 21 February 2018 at 15:09, Martin Hundebøll <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > Now that the discussion branched out a bit... >> > >> > We would like better support for this too. Our setup uses a >> > "manifest" >> > repository with git submodules to setup the layers: >> > >> > > yocto/ >> > > meta-poky/ >> > > meta-qt5/ >> > > meta-foo/ >> > > meta-bar/ >> > > conf/ >> > > bblayers.conf >> > > local.conf >> > > .gitmodules >> > >> > With this setup, customers simply need to clone our yocto repo >> > recursively, run `yocto/meta-poky/oe-init-build-env yocto` and then >> > `bitbake image-recipe`. >> > >> > But this is rather inflexible, as it requires the "yocto" folder to >> > be the >> > build folder to activate the config files... >> > >> > We looked into putting the configs in "meta-foo/conf/*.conf.sample" >> > and >> > using TEMPLATECONF, but the "oe-init-build-env" script is rather >> > picky >> > about poky being the "top" directory. >> > >> > I guess the oe-init-build-env script can be changed to look for >> > .templateconf in any parent folder? >> >> >> Putting together a deliverable setup that's easy for the customer to >> get >> started with is a bit tricky. Here's the approach that's worked well >> for >> me: >> >> /myproject >> /env <-- script >> /build >> /meta-myproject >> /bitbake >> /oe-core >> /meta-layer1 >> /meta-layer2 >> >> env, build, meta-myproject are part of the myproject repo, everything >> else is a submodule. > > refkit used the same approach. One thing that I would prefer to do > differently is the location of the submodule: having them in their own > directory would make it more transparent which code is "external" and > which is "internal". > >> "env" is a script containing just the following: >> . ./oe-core/oe-init-build-env build/ bitbake/ > > We ended up with a top-level "oe-init-build-env" wrapper script around > the actual oe-core/oe-init-build-env. That way the repo could be used > the same way as poky. The script sets TEMPLATECONF, so the usual local > build setup happens based on refkit sample files.
We have a script set and a document which describes how we do it: http://doc.ossystems.com.br/managing-platforms.html The script sources can be seen at: https://code.ossystems.com.br/gitweb?p=ossystems-yocto-base-scripts.git -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems http://www.ossystems.com.br http://code.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 (53) 9981-7854 Mobile: +1 (347) 903-9750 -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
