On Thu, 8 Jan 2015, micke.p...@telldus.se wrote:
>
> Message: 6
> Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2015 08:31:58 -0500 (EST)
> From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpj...@crashcourse.ca>
> To: Anders Darander <and...@chargestorm.se>
> Cc: Yocto discussion list <yocto@yoctoproject.org>,
> "peterengcomau...@adam.com.au" <peterengcomau...@adam.com.au>
> Subject: Re: [yocto] is it not a *requirement* that layers start with
> "meta-"?
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> On Thu, 8 Jan 2015, Anders Darander wrote:
> * Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> [150105 18:09]:
> On Mon, 5 Jan 2015, Rifenbark, Scott M wrote:
>
> If anyone can locate some scripts or something that
> actually does require "meta-" to be prepended please
> let
> me know. That changes how we describe this.
>
> as an admittedly simple example, i ran across this in
> oe-core's
> scripts/contrib/documentation-audit.sh:
>
> for pkg in `bitbake -s | awk '{ print \$1 }'`; do
>
> ... snip ...
>
> if [[ "$pkg" =~ ^meta- || "$pkg" =~ ^packagegroup- ||
> "$pkg" =~
> -image ]]; then # Skip meta, task and image recipes
> continue fi
>
> checking that the package name starts with "meta-" seems to
> pretty
> clearly suggest that it will be treated differently than if
> it
> doesn't. i'm sure no one is terribly worried about that
> particular
> script, but it does seem to show an example of this.
>
> But that's checking *recipe* names, not layer names... Thus,
> you'll have to look
> for another example. ;)
>
> ah, quite so, so perhaps the "meta-" prefix is not a real
> requirement, just convention.
>
> rday
>
> --
>
> The layer "openembedded-core" does not start with "meta-".
well, yes, but that's kind of a special case as it's the only
*required* layer. in any event, i apologize if i made a bigger deal
out of this than was warranted, i just thought the rules for layer
naming were a bit ambiguous and i wanted some clarification.
rday
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