On 2/20/18 10:52 AM, Richard Purdie wrote: > On Tue, 2018-02-20 at 10:40 -0800, Khem Raj wrote: >> On 2/20/18 10:00 AM, Tim Orling wrote: >>> I am open to discussion about what direction we go. Individual >>> layers that >>> are curated and built together by YP auto builders sounds like an >>> intriguing path. If this was coupled with increased ptest or >>> testimage >>> usage, our confidence in layer quality would go up dramatically. >>> >> I would like to understand whats stopping YP autobuilders to build >> layers under meta-openembedded repo and contribute changes as needed. >> All changes with test improvements etc. above are a good change and >> should be adopted across layers. However splitting layers is least of >> the problem as of now. > > The Yocto Project cannot commit to building everything in the meta-oe > repository. There are some specific layers we would consider building > but right now I think there are inter-dependencies that cause problems. >
1 is better than zero so go for it :) As you see fit, send patches to subsume the dependencies into other layers and make it meta-oe layer free, this seems a good step forward > Sure, we can look into those and try and fix them in some way and that > would be one less hurdle. I do appreciate we have autobuilder issues > right now which also causes us problems, I've already committed to > working through those. > > Even once we do that, we (as in YP) can't send out a clear message > about what we're testing and users will clone meta-oe and expect > everything to work. So right now I do have problems trying to get to a > point where YP can use meta-oe effectively. poky is a different git repo and it has its own way of subsuming subset of oe layers ( oe-core bitbake meta-poky ..), meta-oe is just another one to deal with fhere. it seems more like a distro problem here to me. > > I could combo-layer pieces of meta-oe into poky but I'd imagine that > would create more problems than it would solve too and given the > general dislike of combo-layer, I think ultimately better layer tooling > would be a better answer and more acceptable to everyone. > I think monolithic nature of poky repo is your problem here. if it was using layers independently it would have been better. > Cheers, > > Richard > > > > -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
