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+#
+## Copyright (C) 2019 Wind River Systems, Inc.
+#
+#  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+#  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+#  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+#  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+#  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+#  limitations under the License.
+
+# We have a conf and classes directory, add to BBPATH
+BBPATH .= ":${LAYERDIR}"
+
+# We have recipes-* directories, add to BBFILES
+BBFILES += "${LAYERDIR}/stx-*/*.bb \
+            ${LAYERDIR}/stx-*/*.bbappend \
+            ${LAYERDIR}/stx-*/*/*.bb \
+            ${LAYERDIR}/stx-*/*/*.bbappend"
+
+BBFILE_COLLECTIONS += "stx-flock-layer"
+BBFILE_PATTERN_stx-flock-layer := "^${LAYERDIR}/"
+BBFILE_PRIORITY_stx-flock-layer = "5"
+
+LAYERDEPENDS_STX_FLOCK = "\
+	core \
+	dpdk \
+	networking-layer \
+	openembedded-layer \
+	networking-layer \
+	filesystems-layer \
+	perl-layer \
+	meta-python \
+	webserver \
+	virtualization-layer \
+	cloud-services-layer \
+	openstack-layer \
+"
+
+# This should only be incremented on significant changes that will
+# cause compatibility issues with other layers
+LAYERVERSION_stx-flock-version = "1"
+LAYERSERIES_COMPAT_stx-flock-layer = "thud warrior"
+
+LAYER_PATH_meta-stx-flock = "${LAYERDIR}"
+
+# Masked recipes:
+BBMASK += "/meta-python2/recipes-core/images/meta-python-ptest-image.bb"
+BBMASK += "/meta-python2/recipes-core/images/meta-python-image-base.bb"
+BBMASK += "/meta-python2/recipes-core/images/meta-python-image.bb"
+BBMASK += "/meta-stak-common/recipes-containers/kubernetes/kubernetes_git.bbappend"
+BBMASK += "/meta-cloud-services/meta-openstack/recipes-devtools/python/python-cephclient_0.1.0.5.bb"
+BBMASK += "/meta-openstack/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu_2.%.bbappend"
+BBMASK += "/meta-cloud-services/meta-openstack/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_4.18.bbappend"
+BBMASK += "/meta-selinux/recipes-graphics/mesa/mesa_%.bbappend"
+BBMASK += "/meta-virtualization/recipes-containers/docker-distribution/docker-distribution_git.bb"
+BBMASK += "/meta-starlingX/recipes-containers/docker-distribution/docker-distribution_git.bbappend"
+BBMASK += "/meta-starlingX/recipes-support/puppet/puppetlabs-stdlib_git.bbappend"