-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 25-01-10 12:49, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jan 2010, Holger Hans Peter Freyther wrote: > >> On Sunday 24 January 2010 16:34:43 Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> >>>> On the other hand I agree totally agree that more testers the >>>> better, but IMO this would also mean that they follow the low >>>> volume bitbake-dev mailinglist, to get information like the >>>> svn->git switch, branches and such?! >>> >>> i'm currently updating the bitbake manual (yes, you should be >>> nervous) and i noticed that there is nothing early on about how to >>> *get* bitbake. so i'm going to add a short section, suggesting >>> first to use the latest official tarball (explaining where to get >>> it), followed by a section for more advanced users on how to check >>> it out, with the appropriate cautions. >> >> Thanks a lot for doing this update. > > still working on it, but a question. a while back, i observed that > one of the OE branches (stable/2009?) came with bitbake built in, > while the other i work with (dev) did not. or was it the other way > around? and there was some confusion as to why the situation would be > different between the two branches. > > can i document that, no matter what branch one is working with, the > proper approach is to download bitbake separately and make sure that's > the one that's being invoked. (i might add a short side note that > some branches came with bitbake built in, but users should *not* take > advantage of that.) > > does that sound reasonable?
*If* is has bitbake builtin, users should use that one, as it is certain that bitbake will match the metadata. You can opt to choose to install a bitbake yourself, but then it's up to you to make sure bitbake and OE match. Since stable/2009 is a long term branch we decided to put bitbake in there to remove at least on point of failure. regards, Koen -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iD8DBQFLXYt5MkyGM64RGpERAjcZAJ9/EskJ5wwW6yvdkzOXlRBCerbYyACfdOM4 HmGTgPTWrbAexAZv9zpXhqI= =Tz1I -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
