On Wednesday 22 April 2015 23:49:41 Khem Raj wrote: > > On Apr 22, 2015, at 4:22 PM, Paul Eggleton <paul.eggle...@linux.intel.com> > > wrote:> > > On Wednesday 22 April 2015 20:51:08 Brian Karcz wrote: > >> Thanks for pointing me to that. It sounds like exactly what I need. I > >> can't believe that I've not come across that in my searches. I suppose > >> its a matter of using the right search criteria. > > > > So I do want to mention one thing - we envisaged externalsrc more for > > situations where you temporarily want to build from an external source > > tree (for example, when you're in the middle of development). The > > expectation is that when you reach production you switch over to a > > standard repository > > specified in SRC_URI. Having said that there aren't any actual barriers to > > using it on a more permanent basis as it sounds like you may be > > considering (although perhaps I've misunderstood.) > > Application development doesn’t end is what really happens, so developers > will need to keep using something like this forever on a given application, > and somehow externalsrc sounds temporary i.e. not included into regular > workflow.
But does the source tree persist on one developer's machine? Or should it in fact be on a proper server in a repository of its own? > >> 2) can the SRC_URI now be omitted in the recipe since there is nothing to > >> fetch? > > > > You can leave it completely blank if you wish. In dizzy and earlier, > > SRC_URI is effectively ignored with externalsrc. In master and the > > just-released fido release, any local file:// references will still be > > fetched if present, remote URIs will be ignored. > > Will they be just fetched or also applied to source tree like in > non-externalsrc case. getting a 'prepared source tree' in an externalsrc > env is a big confusion point for developers where a given component is > building totally fine and if one want to use externalsrc then developer > needs to do ‘preparation of source tree’, so it seems post 1.7 we have > something inbetween solution ? They will be unpacked into the workdir as they would have been without externalsrc. They do not go into the source tree. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
