Bug 12313

Summary: recipetool needs a place to put dummy recipes / bbappends
Product: [Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core Reporter: Paul Eggleton <bluelightning>
Component: coreAssignee: Unassigned <unassigned>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: Medium CC: meta.mr.watcher, meta.watcher, randy.macleod, rebecca.swee.fun.chang
Version: 2.4   
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 Paul Eggleton 2017-11-06 20:31:31 UTC 
Since the refactoring I did in 2.4 for devtool/recipetool fetching new source, we actually need to create a "dummy" recipe in order to be able to run do_fetch/do_unpack/do_patch with the desired SRC_URI, then run the tasks, then delete the recipe. To do this we look through BBFILES and pick a place to put the recipe, favouring the workspace layer if it's present - but it may not be if the user is running recipetool and devtool has never been run. 

This current method is a kludge. We could really use a place to put these dummy recipes temporarily without potentially writing things into a random layer in the user's configuration. Of course we could add a layer on the fly, but that would trigger a full reparse of the metadata which I think would be worse.
Comment 1 Randy MacLeod 2023-10-24 14:24:41 UTC 
Bulk move from 4.99 or 0.00 to 5.99