Re: [poky] [PATCH] meta-poky/conf: bblayers.conf.sample: move meta-yocto repos out of oe-core

On Tue, 28 Oct 2025 at 11:50, Antonin Godard via
lists.yoctoproject.org
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm also in the process of creating a document in yocto-docs that
> describes how to build the Poky reference distro without bitbake-setup,
> and that uses this file to setup layers. So this layout will also be
> reflected in the documentation.

I assume this will be presented as the 'backup/historical option',
after the bitbake-setup flow, which will be the primary choice?

>  BBLAYERS ?= " \
>    ##OEROOT##/meta \
> -  ##OEROOT##/meta-poky \
> -  ##OEROOT##/meta-yocto-bsp \
> +  ##OEROOT##/../meta-yocto/meta-poky \
> +  ##OEROOT##/../meta-yocto/meta-yocto-bsp \

There is a complication here. Integrated poky repository is not
deprecated (yet), a lot of people are using it (still), and when it's
assembled with combo-layer, then this file needs to be reverted to how
it was. I'm not sure if this is easily doable, but without that tweak,
this patch cannot go in, until integrated poky repo is truly obsoleted
and is no longer receiving new commits.

I suspect everything would have to be done in lockstep, and at the same time:
- obsolete poky repo
- merge this tweak
- merge documentation changes that explain how to assemble poky
without cloning the poky repo.

Alex