On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 6:16 PM Khem Raj <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 9:43 AM keydi <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > Two projects are given. They use different YP release each.
> > Projects use also different target platform each.
> >
> > I wonder if differences in structuring metadata- and recipes- directory
> tree between
> > these two projects result solely from different YP releases in use.
> > Or if these can be a result also of modifications conducted by platform
> vendors.
> >
> > Any hints in what extend these result from different YP release numbers
> in use?
> >
> > project A (YP release 2.6)
> > xxxx /yocto/
> > xxxx/yocto/downloads
> > xxxx/yocto/meta
> > xxxx/yocto/sstate-cache
> > xxxx/yocto/build
> > xxxx/yocto/.repo
> > xxxx/yocto/src
> > xxxx/yocto/prebuilt
> > xxxx/yocto/meta/
> > xxxx/yocto/meta/poky
> > xxxx/yocto/meta/meta-security
> > xxxx/yocto/meta/meta-clang
> > xxxx/yocto/meta/meta-openembedded
> > xxxx/yocto/meta/poky/
> > xxxx/yocto/meta/poky/meta
> > xxxx/yocto/meta/poky/documentation
> > xxxx/yocto/meta/poky/meta-poky
> > xxxx/yocto/meta/poky/meta-selftest
> > xxxx/yocto/meta/poky/bitbake
> > xxxx/yocto/meta/poky/.git
> > xxxx/yocto/meta/poky/meta-yocto-bsp
> > xxxx/yocto/meta/poky/meta-skeleton
> > xxxx/yocto/meta/poky/scripts
> > + a set of layers value chain specific, meta-... subdirectories with
> meta/  as root-point.
> >
> > project B (YP release 2.0, actually backport of some later release
> > which unfortunately is not reflected in poky.conf)
> > yyyy/poky/
> > yyyy/poky/meta-yocto
> > yyyy/poky/meta
> > yyyy/poky/documentation
> > yyyy/poky/meta-selftest
> > yyyy/poky/meta-selinux
> > yyyy/poky/build
> > yyyy/poky/meta-cust-installer
> > yyyy/poky/bitbake
> > yyyy/poky/meta-yocto-bsp
> > yyyy/poky/meta-skeleton
> > yyyy/poky/scripts
> > + a set of layers value chain specific, meta-... subdirectories with
> poky/  as root-point.
> >
> > I mean mainly following differences:
> > * Project A places a set of value-chain specific layers/meta-...
> directories at same
> > directory level as poky.
> > * meta-yocto apparently not present in project A tree
> > * meta-poky apparently not present in project B tree
>
> OE allows you to build own distributions, so what you are looking at
> is two different distributions based on different
> different releases but using same build system ( OpenEmbedded ) over
> major releases the build system gets changed
> too in terms of its metadata as well new features and some old cruft
> removed like usual projects. so you have different
> releases, and different machines and different distro all contributing
> to the differences.
>

and meta-yocto was renamed to meta-poky in one of those changes at the
request of the members and community.


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