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authorScott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com>2018-03-23 12:30:42 -0700
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2018-05-24 17:17:41 +0100
commit8b423ea03e84d9f6dd844f1597b30c4cb0ca875a (patch)
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parent086668f40e13504c9d09ef4954823a836c5e8cd2 (diff)
downloadpoky-8b423ea03e84d9f6dd844f1597b30c4cb0ca875a.tar.gz
dev-manual: Updated the "Creating Your Own Layer" section.
For step 3 on creating the layer, I put in wording to make sure the user does not create a layer in the cloned poky directory. (From yocto-docs rev: 1a0d1d0c0cdfa77c6df005d0294d11a02ca3770c) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
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--- a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
+++ b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
@@ -65,8 +65,15 @@
65 <listitem><para> 65 <listitem><para>
66 <emphasis>Create a Directory:</emphasis> 66 <emphasis>Create a Directory:</emphasis>
67 Create the directory for your layer. 67 Create the directory for your layer.
68 While not strictly required, prepend the name of the 68 When you create the layer, be sure to create the
69 directory with the string "meta-". 69 directory in an area not associated with the
70 Yocto Project
71 <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#source-directory'>Source Directory</ulink>
72 (e.g. the cloned <filename>poky</filename> repository).
73 </para>
74
75 <para>While not strictly required, prepend the name of
76 the directory with the string "meta-".
70 For example: 77 For example:
71 <literallayout class='monospaced'> 78 <literallayout class='monospaced'>
72 meta-mylayer 79 meta-mylayer