Bug 8594

Summary: devtool: provide easy means of moving a recipe in the workspace to a real layer
Product: [Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core Reporter: Paul Eggleton <bluelightning>
Component: Scripts and ToolsAssignee: Paul Eggleton <bluelightning>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: Medium CC: ross.burton
Version: 2.0   
Target Milestone: 2.2   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Multiple   
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: Yes (doc changes required)

Description Paul Eggleton 2015-10-28 09:12:24 UTC 
At the moment, if you do a "devtool add" or a "devtool upgrade", you need to take care of moving the created recipe to a real layer manually; it would be nice to provide a single command (or option to update-recipe) that would do that for you. 

The tricky thing is when you do "devtool update-recipe" in this situation, your changes are only going into the workspace, whereas when you do it after doing "devtool modify" your changes go back to the "real" recipe that's already in a proper layer; this may be a little confusing if you don't know what's going on behind the scenes. If practical it would be nice to smooth this out; does it make sense to have a two-step process where you use "devtool update-recipe" to update the recipe in the workspace and then another command to copy/move that recipe and associated files to a real layer?
Comment 1 Ross Burton 2016-07-20 13:41:57 UTC 
Fixed in oe-core fa550fcb9333d59b28fc0e4aebde888831410f5c.