10322 2016-09-22 18:29:15 +0000 better way to grab layers and get them automatically batched by generating a bash script on the fly to do the tedious parts 2026-02-12 16:31:12 +0000 1 1 6 Yocto Project Subprojects Layer Index Layer Index unspecified x86 Multiple NEW Medium enhancement 6.99 1 brian.avery unassigned brian.avery liam.howlett mark.hatle randy.macleod richard.purdie tim.orling --- --- No (bug/feature does not impact docs) oldest_to_newest 66515 0 brian.avery 2016-09-22 18:29:15 +0000 I'd like to be able to hit a button to generate a bash script that will run the commands I need and dump a file that I can add to bblayers. bash takes $1 as name of bblayers stub to dump out # variables to describe the layer and the layer dependencies ### # clone and switch branch to the branch I picked on the website for the layer. # Only reclone it if the layer isn't present . e.g. if I already did this for meta-python and am grabbing meta-networking don't re pull meta-openembedded... ### # Do the same for the dependencies. ### walk the list and dump out a file with BBLAYERS += " \ <dir we dumped in>/meta-openembedded/meta-networking \ <dir we dumped in>/meta-openembedded/meta-python \ ... This would be a very cli friendly way to grab a bunch of layers from layerindex. 67844 1 mark.hatle 2016-11-01 22:42:52 +0000 Work is in progress on this.. There is no bash script, but a specific setup program that will setup a repo xml manifest based on the layer index. Please wait until this work is published (hopefully soon) it may do what you want and more. 71794 2 bluelightning 2017-03-28 03:32:36 +0000 Moving this to 2.4 when we'll have a bit more time to look at the setup process in detail. 87344 3 richard.purdie 2020-05-28 07:09:47 +0000 Think we did make some progress towards this but not sure if we're done yet. 96944 4 randy.macleod 2023-10-24 14:24:48 +0000 Bulk move from 4.99 or 0.00 to 5.99 98135 5 tim.orling 2024-02-06 02:25:52 +0000 I think what is desired here is mostly covered by "bitbake-layers layerindex-fetch" The rest of it will likely be covered -- in a standardized way -- by the new proposal: https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-architecture/message/1913 104273 6 tim.orling 2026-02-12 16:31:12 +0000 bitbake-setup is now under active development (and a functional version has been available since 5.3 whinlatter). However, no layerindex integration has been planned/discussed yet. It is advised to do any such integration in the wrynose LTS timeframe, when bitbake-setup has had more time to be used/developed by a much larger audience. Moving to 6.99