Own "overlay" for OpenEmbedded

[pHilipp Zabel]

On 8/31/07, Thomas Gstädtner <thomas at gstaedtner.net> wrote:
> I plan to use a own "overlay" for my applications directly in OE.
> Therefore I want to have a own directory with my .bb, task and image files.
> The problem is, that I'd need some apps/libs that are in OE already, but not
> working or not in the version that I would like to have.
> How can I tell OE to use the files from my directory preferred to the
> equally named ones of the OE dirs?
> Is it maybe just a question of the path's order in the local.conf?

http://www.openembedded.org/user-manual&dpage=special_bitbake_collections
http://bitbake.berlios.de/manual/ch04s02.html#id870544

The documentation is not too detailed yet, but you should get the idea.

cheers
Philipp