On Mon, 2013-11-18 at 16:21 +0000, Robert Calhoun wrote: > From: Richard Purdie <[email protected]> > > >opkg is in svn but its one of the few remaining > >components we use from svn. It means we have to build subversion-native > >which has a fairly long dependency chain. It would be nice if we didn't > >need to so is there any chance we can move opkg to git? > > I'm one of the great unwashed who still use subversion internally. For > these users, removing subversion SRC_URIs from oe-core will not remove the > need to build subversion-native. I'm not suggesting that oe-core should > not move away from svn when appropriate, only that many users aren't going > see much of a performance bump when every last reference is purged.
If you need it for internal usage, you probably don't mind the build overhead and/or you can use ASSUME_PROVIDED. I'm not suggesting we drop svn support or anything like that, I would just prefer to optimise the build where we can and this is looking like somewhere reasonable to do it now. > >An alternative would be to have good tarball releases we could use > >instead? > > If opkg doesn't change much, a tarball download will be faster and use > less disk space than svn checkout. This seems like a good approach. Agreed, I don't think this hurts anything. > From: Saul Wold <[email protected]> > >Yup, that's the one, and they don't keep the older tarballs around > >either, a real pain! > > ...as long as the old tarballs hang around! This is a case where we can ensure they do I hope! :) > Documentation on the various SRC_URI fetchers is pretty thin in the yocto > manuals. The bitbake documentation is also incomplete and it requires 1 GB > (!) of dependencies to make. I'd be happy to work on better documenting > SRC_URI syntax; where should this go? A new section under 5.3 of the dev > manual seems most appropriate: > > http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/dev-manual/dev-manual.html#usingpo > ky-extend-addpkg > > I assume bitbake's usermanual.xml should be updated as well? There are a > half-dozen commits in the last two years, so it is neither very active nor > very dead. > > This sort of falls under > https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4370 but as that is > about the OE user manual, should I make a new ticket and assign it to > myself? I'd sync with Paul Eggleton on this since I think he and Scott Rifenbbark are going to figure out how to deal with the bitbake manual soon. It certainly needs some TLC. Cheers, Richard _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
