On Mon, Sep 2, 2019 at 2:05 PM Brian Silverman <b...@readysetstem.com> wrote: > > Is there a way to automatically fetch/add a yocto layer from another layer? > > My problem is that I’d like to be able to build instructions of my product > from one version number. But here’s our normal (example) build instructions: > > git clone git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky -b some_poky_tag > > cd poky > git clone git://git.somelayer1.com/meta-layer1 -b some_layer1_tag > > git clone git://git.somelayer2.com/meta-layer2 -b some_layer2_tag > > git clone git://git.mylayer.com/meta-mylayer -b some_mylayer_tag > > source ./oe-init-build-env > bitbake-layers add-layer ../meta-layer1 > bitbake-layers add-layer ../meta-layer2 > bitbake-layers add-layer ../meta-mylayer > > bitbake mylayer-image > > > The tags chosen above are based on what we test and ship. So my issue is > that someone has to correctly follow the above instructions for different > versions of multiple layers if they want a reproducible build of a specific > version of mylayer-image. > > Is there a canonical why to encode this information within my layer? > Obviously I could script the above, store it in my layer, and have the user > run that script. But, that seems very unyocto-like.
There is combo-layer. I've used it before and for certain applications it's useful. https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Combo-layer http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky-config/tree/ -b > > -- > > Brian Silverman > > Ready Set STEM > > b...@readysetstem.com > > > -- > _______________________________________________ > yocto mailing list > yocto@yoctoproject.org > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
