Bug 10322

Summary:	better way to grab layers and get them automatically batched by generating a bash script on the fly to do the tedious parts
Product:	[Yocto Project Subprojects] Layer Index	Reporter:	brian avery <brian.avery>
Component:	Layer Index	Assignee:	Unassigned <unassigned>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Medium	CC:	brian.avery, liam.howlett, mark.hatle, randy.macleod, richard.purdie, tim.orling
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	6.99
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Multiple
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto:	---	Type of Regression:	---
Verified:		Documentation change:	No (bug/feature does not impact docs)

Description brian avery 2016-09-22 18:29:15 UTC

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.

Comment 1 Mark Hatle 2016-11-01 22:42:52 UTC

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.

Comment 2 Paul Eggleton 2017-03-28 03:32:36 UTC

Moving this to 2.4 when we'll have a bit more time to look at the setup process in detail.

Comment 3 Richard Purdie 2020-05-28 07:09:47 UTC

Think we did make some progress towards this but not sure if we're done yet.

Comment 4 Randy MacLeod 2023-10-24 14:24:48 UTC

Bulk move from 4.99 or 0.00 to 5.99

Comment 5 Tim Orling 2024-02-06 02:25:52 UTC

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

Comment 6 Tim Orling 2026-02-12 16:31:12 UTC

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