From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cpanel8.indieserve.net (cpanel8.indieserve.net [199.212.143.3]) by mx.groups.io with SMTP id smtpd.web11.21354.1630930210094541079 for ; Mon, 06 Sep 2021 05:10:10 -0700 Authentication-Results: mx.groups.io; dkim=missing; spf=pass (domain: crashcourse.ca, ip: 199.212.143.3, mailfrom: rpjday@crashcourse.ca) Received: from cpeac202e043973-cmac202e043970.sdns.net.rogers.com ([174.114.107.13]:49754 helo=fedora) by cpanel8.indieserve.net with esmtpsa (TLS1.2) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1mNDRw-0005Az-Bo for docs@lists.yoctoproject.org; Mon, 06 Sep 2021 08:10:08 -0400 Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2021 08:10:05 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert P. J. Day" To: YP docs mailing list Subject: ambiguous definition of "container layer" in ref manual Message-ID: <1c15448a-27a0-3b37-b8a5-bec9249c8c8e@crashcourse.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - cpanel8.indieserve.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.yoctoproject.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - crashcourse.ca X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: cpanel8.indieserve.net: authenticated_id: rpjday+crashcourse.ca/only user confirmed/virtual account not confirmed X-Authenticated-Sender: cpanel8.indieserve.net: rpjday@crashcourse.ca X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="8323328-887144611-1630930207=:7052" --8323328-887144611-1630930207=:7052 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-7 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT on this page: https://docs.yoctoproject.org/ref-manual/terms.html i think the definition of "container layer" is potentially confusing. one reads: "An example of a container layer is OpenEmbedded˘s meta-openembedded layer" no, it's not -- it is simply a single git checkout containing numerous (sub)layers, it is not *itself* a layer, containing neither its own conf/ directory and layer.conf file and so on. i submit that an actual container layer would be, say, meta-cloud-services: https://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-cloud-services/tree/ or perhaps meta-security: https://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-security/tree/ thoughts? rday --8323328-887144611-1630930207=:7052--