Greetings,

I've found that bitbake-layers has a nice subcommand
'layerindex-fetch' that will fetch layers from
https://layers.openembedded.org/ pulling in their dependencies and
adding them into your bblayers.conf.

This is a really nice tool but I find that the layout of the FSL
Community BSP doesn't work properly with it because of where
meta-oenemebedded gets placed. For this to work layers need to be
placed in BBLAYERS_FETCH_DIR which is set to COREBASE (sources/poky)
otherwise meta-openembedded gets duplicated.

Here's an example of what I'm talking about:

$ repo init -u https://github.com/Freescale/fsl-community-bsp-platform -b master
$ repo sync
$ MACHINE=imx6qsabrelite DISTRO=poky source setup-environment build
$ bitbake-layers layerindex-fetch meta-networking # add meta-networking layer
Loading cache: 100% |############################################| Time: 0:00:00
Loaded 2320 entries from dependency cache.
Layer Required by Git repository
Subdirectory
===================================================================================================================
meta-networking -
git://git.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded
meta-networking
openembedded-core meta-networking
git://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core meta
meta-oe meta-networking
git://git.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded meta-oe
meta-python meta-networking
git://git.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded meta-python
Cloning into '/usr/src/ventana/yocto/pyro-2.3/sources/poky/meta-openembedded'...
remote: Counting objects: 75951, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (25800/25800), done.
remote: Total 75951 (delta 46633), reused 75600 (delta 46386)
Receiving objects: 100% (75951/75951), 26.05 MiB | 10.20 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (46633/46633), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
Adding layer "meta-oe" to conf/bblayers.conf
Adding layer "meta-python" to conf/bblayers.conf
Adding layer "meta-networking" to conf/bblayers.conf
$ cat conf/bblayers.conf
POKY_BBLAYERS_CONF_VERSION = "2"

BBPATH = "${TOPDIR}"
BSPDIR := "${@os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(d.getVar('FILE', True))
+ '/../..')}"

BBFILES ?= ""
BBLAYERS = " \
${BSPDIR}/sources/poky/meta \
${BSPDIR}/sources/poky/meta-poky \
${BSPDIR}/sources/meta-openembedded/meta-oe \
${BSPDIR}/sources/meta-openembedded/meta-multimedia \
${BSPDIR}/sources/meta-freescale \
${BSPDIR}/sources/meta-freescale-3rdparty \
${BSPDIR}/sources/meta-freescale-distro \
/usr/src/ventana/yocto/pyro-2.3/sources/poky/meta-openembedded/meta-oe \
/usr/src/ventana/yocto/pyro-2.3/sources/poky/meta-openembedded/meta-python \
/usr/src/ventana/yocto/pyro-2.3/sources/poky/meta-openembedded/meta-networking
\
"
^^^^ note we now have two copies of meta-openembedded which causes
duplicate recipes/includes etc
$ bitbake core-image-console
WARNING: Duplicate inclusion for
/usr/src/ventana/yocto/pyro-2.3/sources/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/conf/distro/include/meta_oe_security_flags.inc
in /usr/src/ventana/yocto/pyro-2.3/sources/poky/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/conf/layer.conf
WARNING: Duplicate inclusion for
/usr/src/ventana/yocto/pyro-2.3/sources/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/conf/distro/include/meta_oe_security_flags.inc
in /usr/src/ventana/yocto/pyro-2.3/sources/poky/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/conf/layer.conf
WARNING: Duplicate inclusion for
/usr/src/ventana/yocto/pyro-2.3/sources/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/conf/distro/include/meta_oe_security_flags.inc
in /usr/src/ventana/yocto/pyro-2.3/sources/poky/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/conf/layer.conf
^^^^ caused by multiple copies of meta-openembedded

I'm not sure when the layerindex-fetch got added but I notice it also
doesn't work on morty for other reasons (python exceptions raised).

Any desire to fix this and anyone know the proper way to do so?

Regards,

Tim