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List:       openembedded-core
Subject:    Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] devtool: warn user about multiple layer having the same base name
From:       Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton () linux ! intel ! com>
Date:       2019-06-30 20:24:26
Message-ID: 2269427.UxezG6JHts () localhost ! localdomain
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Hi Peter,

On Friday, 28 June 2019 10:09:22 PM NZST Peter Kjellerstedt wrote:
> I had not realized the layer name in the devtool finish command supports
> abbreviations/patterns (whichever it is). My expectation from running
> `devtool finish foo meta` would be to update the foo recipe in the meta
> layer,  not that it should go looking for every layer called meta-something.

That's not how it works. The logic is here:

  https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/tree/scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py#n1866


We only have the subdirectory the layer is in to use to determine what the name of \
the layer is, if you only specify the name. The only shortcuts in this function are \
"oe-core" and "openembedded-core" map to "meta". The case this patch is attempting to \
handle is where you have more than one layer in your configuration where the \
subdirectory in which the layer appears is called "meta". (People should generally \
avoid this and put the layer in a subdirectory whose name matches the name of the \
layer, but of course people can do whatever they want.)

Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre


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