On Fri, 2017-10-20 at 13:30 +0000, Koehler, Yannick wrote: > Hi, > > I have been using Yocto for over 2 years now, and whenever I create a > new bbappend file, I always have to remember that FILESEXTRAPATHS > variable, often typing it wrong, EXTRAFILESPATHS or FILEEXTRAPATHS or > FILESEXTRAPATH, etc… > > I did a quick check on my setup and on 102 bbappend recipe found, > there are 73 that uses the FILESEXTRAPATHS variable, so that is > around 71% of them. > > I was wondering if the team would enhance the user/dev experience > here and modify bitbake behavior as to not require this variable and > be able to “override” any FILESPATH that already exists with the > bbappend location. So that for example the FILESPATH “files” would > be looked up in the bbappend folder location before the initial bb > recipe folder location automatically without having to manually enter > a FILESEXTRAPATHS statement. > > Or alternatively, a script or command to create an initial skeleton > bbappend with the initial .bb in comment > > bbappend mylayer recipename.bb > # Create a file under mylayer/recipes-*/*.bbappend > (using % for version when not specified on cmd line) with the > original .bb in comment and a section containing FILESEXTRAPATHS
kergoth has some really good vim plugins for bitbake files at https://g ithub.com/kergoth/vim-bitbake (if you like vim). I supplemented it to pre-populate FILESEXTRAPATHS for bbpappend files, pull request pending: https://github.com/kergoth/vim-bitbake/pull/14 > > I think this would greatly help when creating those files. > > -- > Yannick Koehler > HPE Aruba -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
