[OE-core] RFC: Layer tooling brainstorming

2011-04-18 Thread Richard Purdie
Layer Tooling for OpenEmbedded == As we move forward with encouraging the use of metadata layers, a number of issues are appearing which imply the need for either infrastructure improvements to the layer construction, or better tools to handle the layers. The OS TSC

Re: [OE-core] RFC: Layer tooling brainstorming

2011-04-18 Thread Martin Jansa
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 07:17:01AM +0100, Richard Purdie wrote: Layer Tooling for OpenEmbedded == As we move forward with encouraging the use of metadata layers, a number of issues are appearing which imply the need for either infrastructure improvements to the

Re: [OE-core] RFC: Layer tooling brainstorming

2011-04-18 Thread Paul Eggleton
Some of the ideas I've been thinking of for layer tools, other than what's been mentioned already: * Show easily which recipes are being used and which are overridden. We have bitbake-layers, but this clearly needs some extension. I think long term we would want to be able to analyse overrides