On Thu, 2022-09-22 at 12:42 +0000, Ross Burton wrote:
> On 22 Sep 2022, at 13:24, Mikko Rapeli via lists.openembedded.org 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > For users who build their own variants of poky, they want to stay close
> > to poky.conf and thus use it, but would still like to change the
> > version details and maintainers to their own. With this change
> > these variables can be changed in local.conf, for example.
> 
> If you want to name your distro, make your own distro.conf.

poky-tiny and poky-altcfg do this.

> You can trivially just include poky.conf as the first thing it does,
> but I do recommend that everyone using Yocto in production create
> their own distro and not piggyback on Poky.  Poky can, and does,
> change over time as it’s a test distro for QA purposes, and you may
> not want what we add.

Just to be clear, you can create a distro.conf file even in a local
build directory where local.conf is.

We've kind of left the = assignments in poky.conf to nudge people in
this direction as creating a custom distro in local.conf isn't really
what we want to encourage.

Cheers,

Richard

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