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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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Scott Rifenbark
2018-03-23 12:30:42 -07:00
committed by Richard Purdie
parent 086668f40e
commit 8b423ea03e
@@ -65,8 +65,15 @@
<listitem><para> <listitem><para>
<emphasis>Create a Directory:</emphasis> <emphasis>Create a Directory:</emphasis>
Create the directory for your layer. Create the directory for your layer.
While not strictly required, prepend the name of the When you create the layer, be sure to create the
directory with the string "meta-". directory in an area not associated with the
Yocto Project
<ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#source-directory'>Source Directory</ulink>
(e.g. the cloned <filename>poky</filename> repository).
</para>
<para>While not strictly required, prepend the name of
the directory with the string "meta-".
For example: For example:
<literallayout class='monospaced'> <literallayout class='monospaced'>
meta-mylayer meta-mylayer