Re: [PATCH] Factor out meta-examples

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>]

On 2018-01-24 08:52, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> On 2018-01-24 08:49, Alexander Smirnov wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 01/24/2018 10:34 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>> From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
>>>
>>> Move recipes that have exemplary character (currently everything under
>>> recipes-app) into a separate layer that can easily be dropped when
>>> building real images. This also helps to ensure that no assumptions
>>> about customizations and core recipes sharing the same layer sneak in
>>> again.
>>>
>>> The meta-isar layer is still not completely clean as we keep
>>> bblayers.conf.sample and local.conf.sample prepared for building example
>>> images.
>>>
>>
>> Isar core is in 'meta' layer. Current 'meta-isar' is the example itself,
>> it's not intended to be used in real projects, it's a kind of template
>> for your 'meta-product'.
> 
> This is the old view, it's no longer correct. meta-isar has become
> already a core layer that products build upon. We need to fix this now.

BTW, we should eventually discuss the folding of meta and meta-isar or a
clarification what should go where. For now, I will be add the reusable
recipes for custom kernel builds into meta-isar, but it's not really
intuitive yet.

We definitely must stop proposing users to fork isar in order to build
own images. That is a completely obsolete and counterproductive pattern.

Jan

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