Use the modify
command to configure
an external recipe in the workspace layer.
This command is very similar to the
add
command except that it does not physically create the
recipe in the workspace layer because the recipe already
exists in an external layer.
The modify
command provides options
that allow you to extract the source and provide a
development branch name where you can do your work.
You can use the following command to checkout the source
files:
$ devtool modify -xrecipe
path-to-source
Using the above command form, the default development branch would be "devtool".
If you want to name a development branch, use the
-b
option with the
-x
option:
$ devtool modify -x -bbranch
recipe
path-to-source
devtool modify ‐‐help
command.