Bug 4147

Summary:	Add ability to remotely fetch a layer
Product:	[Build System, Metadata & Runtime] BitBake	Reporter:	Jason Wessel <jason.wessel>
Component:	bitbake	Assignee:	Paul Eggleton <bluelightning>
Status:	VERIFIED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Bogdan Alexandru Voiculescu <bogdanx.a.voiculescu>
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Medium	CC:	bogdanx.a.voiculescu, poky.bs.watcher, poky.watcher
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	1.9
Hardware:	All
OS:	Multiple
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto:	---	Type of Regression:	---
Verified:		Documentation change:	Yes (doc changes required)

Description Jason Wessel 2013-03-28 22:13:49 UTC

If a layer is defined in the BBLAYERS variable with a prefix such as a git:// reference it would be ideal if the layer could be dynamically fetched, expanded and used.

Comment 1 Paul Eggleton 2013-04-02 12:27:10 UTC

This has come up already (see bug 1598). At the time our thinking was that updating the layer should be a manual operation rather than something automatic within the build process itself.

Comment 2 Paul Eggleton 2015-07-09 14:32:56 UTC

I've recently discussed this again with Richard, and because it would require a double-parse it's unlikely that we would implement this as having URLs in bblayers.conf. Therefore I think this really is a duplicate of bug 1598.

(We really ought to have had this discussion much earlier - my apologies.)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1598 ***

Comment 3 Bogdan Alexandru Voiculescu 2015-08-27 15:03:57 UTC

close as duplicate