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dev-manual: emphasize that new layers live outside of poky

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Tweak the bblayers.conf example to encourage the reader to appreciate
that any new layers should not share space with the official Poky
checkout.

(From yocto-docs rev: 46931f8497c3c4b874613acbe7c9612944174559)

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Schulz <foss@0leil.net>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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Robert P. J. Day
2021-08-29 05:42:31 -04:00
committed by Richard Purdie
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@@ -422,8 +422,9 @@ Before the OpenEmbedded build system can use your new layer, you need to
enable it. To enable your layer, simply add your layer's path to the
:term:`BBLAYERS` variable in your ``conf/bblayers.conf`` file, which is
found in the :term:`Build Directory`.
The following example shows how to enable a layer named
``meta-mylayer``::
The following example shows how to enable your new
``meta-mylayer`` layer (note how your new layer exists outside of
the official ``poky`` repository which you would have checked out earlier)::
# POKY_BBLAYERS_CONF_VERSION is increased each time build/conf/bblayers.conf
# changes incompatibly
@@ -434,7 +435,7 @@ The following example shows how to enable a layer named
/home/user/poky/meta \
/home/user/poky/meta-poky \
/home/user/poky/meta-yocto-bsp \
/home/user/poky/meta-mylayer \
/home/user/mystuff/meta-mylayer \
"
BitBake parses each ``conf/layer.conf`` file from the top down as