Syntactic sugar for layerless repos

[Ross Burton]

Hi,

With it looking very likely that poky will no longer be a unified repository in the future, I've been switching out CI to use bitbake + oe-core.

It's not rocket science but is somewhat verbose and not obvious from the documentation:

  bitbake:
    url: https://git.openembedded.org/bitbake
    layers:
      .: disabled

  core:
    url: https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core
    layers:
      meta:

Would there be any interest in some syntactic sugar for "this repo has no layers"?

Thanks,

Ross

[Stefano Babic]

On 9/9/25 17:23, Ross Burton wrote:
> Hi,
>
> With it looking very likely that poky will no longer be a unified
> repository in the future, I've been switching out CI to use bitbake +
> oe-core.
>
> It's not rocket science but is somewhat verbose and not obvious from the
> documentation:
>
>   bitbake:
>     url: https://git.openembedded.org/bitbake
>     layers:
>       .: disabled

Just set:

layers:
bitbake : "excluded"

It works for me.

Best regards,
Stefano Babic

>
>   core:
>     url: https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core
>     layers:
>       meta:
>
> Would there be any interest in some syntactic sugar for "this repo has
> no layers"?
>
> Thanks,
> Ross
>

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[MOESSBAUER, Felix]

On Tue, 2025-09-09 at 17:27 +0200, 'Stefano Babic' via kas-devel wrote:
> On 9/9/25 17:23, Ross Burton wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > With it looking very likely that poky will no longer be a unified
> > repository in the future, I've been switching out CI to use bitbake +
> > oe-core.
> >
> > It's not rocket science but is somewhat verbose and not obvious from the
> > documentation:
> >
> >   bitbake:
> >     url: https://git.openembedded.org/bitbake
> >     layers:
> >       .: disabled
>
> Just set:
>
> layers:
> bitbake : "excluded"
>
> It works for me.

Right, both options are valid.
Thanks for bringing this up.

I don't think we need syntactic sugar for that, but we definitely need
to provide an example for this pattern. People often don't read the
documentation, but look at examples.

Anyone willing to send a patch?

Felix

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