> From: Anders Darander > > Maybe a dumb question... > > Have you added samba to the image that you're building? > Just adding a layer won't cause the added recipes to be built and > deployed.
It's not a dumb question. No, I haven't added samba to the image that I'm building. I've read the Yocto Project Reference Manual (except certain sections that are obviously irrelevant to a user), and the wretched Bitbake manual, and I don't see any mention of doing anything other than adding layers to bblayers.conf and tweaking local.conf. I'm under the impression that, unless one is making metadata changes that will ultimately be contributed back to the community, one treats the poky-danny-8.0 tree as essentially readonly, and limits ones adjustments to perhaps adding more metadata (as I've done by downloading meta-openembedded), and editing bblayers.conf (as I've done by adding the meta-openembedded/meta-oe layer) and a few settings in local.conf. I don't see anything in those files that causes anything to be "added to the image" other than the mentioning of various layers in bblayers.conf. Yet it still manages to build a substantial system containing lots of stuff from poky-danny-8.0, but only a few things from meta-openembedded/meta-oe, and that doesn't include samba. So where in the documentation does it explain this? If, as I suspect, the answer is "nowhere", then somebody's going to have to hold my hand and tell me how to "add samba to the image that I'm building", because I have no idea how to do that. Pardon my exasperation. I really do appreciate the help people have given me here. I just wish it was possible to deduce this stuff by reading a decent manual. And if anyone who is part of the Yocto development team is looking for bugs to fix, they should consider regarding the state of the documentation as a great big fat "bug", and maybe devote 10% of the time to fixing that. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paul mailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
