On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 6:30 AM, Philip Balister <[email protected]> wrote: > I think these remarks come from discussion over the pandaboard u-boot > situation? If so, let's consider these options: > > 1) Remove the pandaboard machine from OE since it does not build for some > people. >
well its a step backwards > 2) Force Koen to update the recipe to something that builds. > he is master of his own time so its not right to force anybody its all volunteer work and we should leverage each others work. > 3) Do nothing. Doesnt take us anywhere. > > No one is happy with the set of options, but the reality is some distros use > source mirrors and do not have issues. Distros that do not use source > mirrors are going to have problems with this and other recipes, so the onus > is on them to resolve these issues. Resolving this is issue does not revolve > around updating the recipe and pushing it un tested for the Panda, since > this is not something that can be tested on another set of hardware. > > So until someone who has a panda and the time and patience to work with > u-boot, minimal will not work for panda. This is because the minimal distro > is supposed to not use advanced OE features such as source mirrors and > PREFERRED_VERSION pinning. Because of these decisions, it is entirely > possible that minimal will not build for all combination by design. > I would propose that we use angstrom-mirrors in minimal distro as a backup to fetch sources from. something like this in minimal.conf would do it SOURCE_MIRROR_URL += "http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/unstable/sources/"; INHERIT += "own-mirrors" if we do not want to inherit angstrom-mirrors class directly. > _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
