2010/12/31 Koen Kooi <[email protected]>: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 31-12-10 20:06, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote: >> 2010/12/31 Koen Kooi <[email protected]>: >> On 31-12-10 16:47, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote: >>>>> The u-boot recipe for pandaboard is nonbuildable for a few >>>>> months. Apparently this recipe is orphaned. >>>>> I've made things buildable again by moving to the latest >>>>> mainline u-boot (as suggested by Steve Sakoman a few monts >>>>> ago). It builds fine, but is not tested on the actual >>>>> hardware (as I do not have access to a board). >>>>> Still I feel that a buildable recipe is better than using a >>>>> recipe that does not even build. >> >> NAK, since it builds just fine and the result of the new recipe doesn't >> work as good: >> >>> It does not build! See the log below. >>> The recipe says: >> >>> SRCREV = "ccd0c67858c6e2807c695e2c8f545284cb871866" >> >>> PV = "2010.9+${PR}+git${SRCREV}" >> >>> SRC_URI = >>> "git://www.sakoman.com/git/u-boot.git;branch=omap4-exp;protocol=git \ >> >>> This SRCREV does not exist! >> >>> The only reason it works for you is because you use a mirror that has >>> a snapshot of the recipe. > > It's the standard angstrom source mirror from angstrom-mirrors.bbclass, > which anyone can use if they want to. > >>> If you are concerned about this recipe the least you can do is to make >>> sure that people can build it even if they do not have your mirror >>> present. > > The configurations I'm concerned about use angstrom-mirrors.bbclass, I > don't care about others. I can send you my rate card if you want to pay > me to support crap like minimal.
Oh my, what are we polite again. I can perfectly support myself, thank you. We have a broken recipe and I feel it should be fixed. > >>> (by either moving the recipe to a SRCREV that exists or by changing >>> the SRC_URI to a location that *does* fetch). >>> In its current form I consider this recipe as broken! > > I only support angstrom for the machines I maintain, if other distros > want to support panda, they are free to mirror the snapshot if they want to. > There is no guarantee that any other SRCREV will keep existing for the > lengths of time, but the angstrom source mirror will keep the snapshot > for at least 3 years. Then as a machine maintainer you are doing a lousy job. A key idea of OE is that we support multiple targets and multiple distro's. Frans _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
