how to include top layer with layers attribute?

[HerrMuellerluedenscheid]

Hey I refactored a project of to encapsulate some logic into a sub layer (lets say meta-specific-config). Thus it looks a bit like this:

meta-x:
  recipes ...
  meta-specific-config:
    recipes ...

Unfortunately kas, doesn't include the base layer recipes but only the meta-specific-config in the bblayers if I explicitly set the layers attribute in the kas configuration. What my bblayers should contain for a specific configuration is:

  meta-x \
  meta-x/meta-specific-config \

How can I achieve that?

[jan-kiszka]

layers:
  .:
  meta-specific-config:

should do the trick. If not, we need to fix something.

[HerrMuellerluedenscheid]

That does the trick! Now that I see that I wonder why I didn't try before... Anyway, thanks!

[priv-kweihmann]

Coming back to this issue - indeed the proposed workaround does the trick but it results in

meta-webserver       = "HEAD:945f062ff098dc9c8ba8d22c5eef88adec60730d"
.                    
meta-tpm             = "HEAD:3daf99fd138b0eebe864bbe1b9c71241d97c4512"

at the build console, which is directly translated into

meta-webserver    = HEAD:945f062ff098dc9c8ba8d22c5eef88adec60730d 
.                 = HEAD:3daf99fd138b0eebe864bbe1b9c71241d97c4512 
meta-tpm          = HEAD:3daf99fd138b0eebe864bbe1b9c71241d97c4512 

at /etc/build when using image-buildinfo bbclass - is there anyway to translate that item properly into the name. BTW the shown example is when using meta-security and the embedded layer of it called meta-tpm

[jan-kiszka]

How does the generated bblayers.conf look like, how should it look like?

[priv-kweihmann]

Just send a patch, which fixes the issue for me - maybe we could continue the discussion on the devel-ML

[priv-kweihmann]

but to give an answer to your question (and also as a public record)

<path>/meta-security/. \
<path>/meta-security/meta-tpm \

turns into

<path>/meta-security \
<path>/meta-security/meta-tpm \

which does look way better to me