[OE-core] [PATCH v2 0/3] Permit to install files from an overlay in images recipes

[Gary Thomas]

On 2017-02-15 18:33, Geoffrey Levillain wrote:
> Hi,
>
> These patches introduce a capability to install overlay into image after
> fetching them.
>
> There is actually a need to add image-specific configurations files into
> image recipes, and these patches are a way to standardize this process as
> well as simplify it by re-enabling fetching when image_overlay is
> inherited, and by providing a task that copy every files in directories
> listed in OVERLAY_ROOT_DIRS into IMAGE_ROOTFS directory.
>
> Geoffrey Levillain (3):
>   image.bbclass: No need to force image licence on MIT
>   image_overlay.bbclass: Add possibility to install overlays to image
>   rm_work.bbclass: Do not remove fetching and install_overlay stamps
>
>  meta/classes/image.bbclass         |  2 +-
>  meta/classes/image_overlay.bbclass | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  meta/classes/rm_work.bbclass       |  4 ++++
>  3 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>  create mode 100644 meta/classes/image_overlay.bbclass

Can you give an example where this approach is better than just
having the image include some [possibly optional] packages that
contain these image-specific configuration files?

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