-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 16-02-10 09:39, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote: > 2010/2/16 Koen Kooi <[email protected]>: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 16-02-10 00:38, Chris Larson wrote: >>> Greetings all, >>> >>> Per discussion in the TSC meeting this month, I'm sending out this email as >>> a probe. Would anyone on the list benefit from a "janitors" type project, >>> to outline and document specific cleanup tasks and how they should be done? >>> There are many tasks that need doing which involve editing of large amounts >>> of files in relatively simple ways, and I suspect, but am not yet certain, >>> that there are a group of individuals who wish to contribute to the project, >>> but are new enough that they don't feel confident diving into anything >>> invasive. This sort of a task could be a starting point for that sort of >>> individual. Thoughts? Anyone out there in that camp currently that would >>> benefit from something like this? >> >> The first project that comes to mind is converting simple recipes (e.g. >> not perl) to new style staging. It's a fairly simple job that has a huge >> impact. > > Problem is to do that reliable. > It is easy to remove the do_stage section from a recipe, and it is > easy to verify that it builds, but it is already becoming less trivial > to verify that everything that depends on it builds too,
A simpile first step is: 1) build recipe 2) bump PR 3) fix staging 4) build recipe 5) diff the 2 packaged-staging recipes If the result of 4) is a superset of 1) then you most likely did the right thing. regards, Koen -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iD8DBQFLemg9MkyGM64RGpERAsJhAKCVNBO2i/El72HF3YNgz9qdm8QenQCfbwg9 g2/Zq8mnEUP7Z5OqNdYX7xA= =pT6Y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
