Re: [poky] [PATCH 1/2] meta/conf/templates/default/conf-notes.txt: remove

On Fri, 2024-02-16 at 12:51 +0100, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> This is present in the poky repository, even though it should
> not be:
> https://git.yoctoproject.org/poky/tree/meta/conf/templates/default
> 
> I couldn't find which tool leaves the file in place when combining
> oe-core/bitbake/meta-yocto repos into poky, so this patch is rather
> a request to point me to where it happens (or just fix it directly
> there).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Kanavin <[email protected]>
> ---
>  meta/conf/templates/default/conf-notes.txt | 19 -------------------
>  1 file changed, 19 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 meta/conf/templates/default/conf-notes.txt

I think you misunderstand how the tool (combo-layer) works and where it
was aiming to go. It does combine the repositories together and whilst
some files are filtered, on the most part the repositories are meant to
be identical between poky and the derivatives, particularly for new
files. Over time the differences were meant to be removed.

I guess what you're saying is that the tooling is still unable to have
any kind of priority selection between the layers present?

The config is here:

https://git.yoctoproject.org/poky-config/tree/combo-layer.conf

specifically:

file_exclude = meta/conf/bblayers.conf.sample meta/conf/local.conf.sample meta/conf/local.conf.sample.extended meta/conf/site.conf.sample

but you will notice the exclusion lists are very small...

Cheers,

Richard