Just a note here regarding which Yocto Project manuals to look at for the most current information. Use the 1.4 manuals. So for the FILESEXTRAPATHS variable description you should look at http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.4/ref-manual/ref-manual.html#var-FILESEXTRAPATHS entry. The description in this more recent manual may be lacking as well. I will try and work on that going forward.
Also, the "poky-ref-manual" part of the name has been changed to a symlink for releases 1.3 forward. This manual path for 1.3 on should direct the user to the manual whose location includes "ref-manual". Scott >-----Original Message----- >From: yocto-boun...@yoctoproject.org [mailto:yocto- >boun...@yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Robert P. J. Day >Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 8:12 AM >To: Paul Eggleton >Cc: yocto@yoctoproject.org >Subject: Re: [yocto] writeup on the mechanics of FILESEXTRAPATHS and >bbappend files > >On Wed, 17 Apr 2013, Paul Eggleton wrote: > >> On Wednesday 17 April 2013 10:24:42 Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> > a while back, i dug into how FILESEXTRAPATHS worked with respect >to >> > .bbappend files and i wrote it up, just updated it a bit here: >> > >> > >http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/FILESEXTRAPATHS_and_bbappend_fi >les >> > >> > do i have it about right? it seemed that the underlying details >> > weren't really explained well in any of the current yocto docs, and >i >> > wanted something i could point students at. >> >> It looks OK to me although if you're going to point students at it I >> might suggest moving the "don't look here!" stuff elsewhere ;) > > yes, that's going to be updated with more examples ripped from the >headlines. :-) > >> Also as I believe I mentioned before, FILESEXTRAPATHS adds not just >> one directory but an "entire list of directories" is it allows >> bbappend file path behaviour to match that of the recipe itself. > > quite so. the reason i did that writeup is that, as i mentioned, i >don't think the behaviour of FILESEXTRAPATHS is well explained. for >example, the entry in the reference manual variable glossary here: > >http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.2/poky-ref-manual/poky-ref- >manual.html#var-FILESEXTRAPATHS > >doesn't even *hint* at the underlying behaviour, which i think is >important to understand. > >rday > >-- > >======================================================================== >Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA > http://crashcourse.ca > >Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday >LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday >======================================================================== >_______________________________________________ >yocto mailing list >yocto@yoctoproject.org >https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
