Re: [Openembedded-architecture] Empty packages and bogus dependencies - what to do?

On Sat, Feb 25, 2023 at 2:24 AM Richard Purdie wrote: > > Hi All, > > There has been some interest in some older bugs about empty packages > and bogus dependencies and what we should do about them. Yohan and > Fawzi were kind enough to post some patches to prompt some discussion > and this did

Re: [Openembedded-architecture] should oe-core issue a warning when it reaches EOL?

On Tue, Aug 2, 2022 at 1:08 AM Alexander Kanavin wrote: > > On Tue, 2 Aug 2022 at 09:58, Andre McCurdy wrote: > > Who is the user base you're referring to? The end customer? They don't > > see build logs or EOL warnings. The OEM creating releases to add new > > features t

Re: [Openembedded-architecture] should oe-core issue a warning when it reaches EOL?

On Mon, Aug 1, 2022 at 11:18 PM Philip Balister wrote: > > On 8/2/22 01:01, Otavio Salvador wrote: > > > > Em seg., 1 de ago. de 2022 às 19:41, Richard Purdie > > > > escreveu: > > > > I do feel that whilst well intentioned, there are too many ways

Re: [Openembedded-architecture] The unpack dilemma

On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 7:17 AM Richard Purdie wrote: > > On Tue, 2022-05-31 at 07:11 -0700, Khem Raj wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, May 30, 2022 at 3:51 AM Richard Purdie > > wrote: > > > I've gone around in circles on this for a long time. The background > > > isn't obvious at first glance. > > >

Re: [Openembedded-architecture] [oe] INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSES and WHITELIST_ usage

On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 3:01 PM Saul Wold wrote: > > Folks, > > I am working on a proposal to re-write how INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSES is used > and processed to possibly include a COMPATIBLE_LICENSES variable as > well, see PeterK's email [0] > > I am trying to determine the usage of WHITELIST_ which

Re: [Openembedded-architecture] [RFC] hard DEPENDS assignment

On Tue, Dec 7, 2021 at 4:02 PM Richard Purdie wrote: > > On Tue, 2021-12-07 at 11:09 -0800, Andre McCurdy wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 7, 2021 at 9:58 AM Richard Purdie wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, 2021-12-07 at 17:53 +, Ross Burton wrote: > > > > On

Re: [Openembedded-architecture] [RFC] hard DEPENDS assignment

On Tue, Dec 7, 2021 at 9:58 AM Richard Purdie wrote: > > On Tue, 2021-12-07 at 17:53 +, Ross Burton wrote: > > On Tue, 7 Dec 2021 at 17:15, Konrad Weihmann wrote: > > > TBF > > > > > > the correct fix would be > > > > > > magic.bbclass > > > --- > > > DEPENDS:append = " magic-dependency" > >

Re: [Openembedded-architecture] Default branch names in git urls

On Tue, Nov 2, 2021 at 10:48 AM Khem Raj wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 2, 2021 at 10:32 AM Richard Purdie > wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2021-11-02 at 08:16 -0700, Khem Raj wrote: > > > Can we change bitbake fetcher to default to https instead git > > > anonymous protocol as fallback? this will be good

Re: [Openembedded-architecture] New assignment operator?

On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 11:26 AM Phil Blundell wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 11:05:06AM -0700, Andre McCurdy wrote: > > I'm not sure I understand this. Why is using the _forcevariable > > override somehow worse than inventing a new assignment operator to do > > the

Re: [Openembedded-architecture] New assignment operator?

On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 2:22 AM Phil Blundell via lists.openembedded.org wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 10:59:40PM +0100, Richard Purdie wrote: > > It certainly could be a solution to the problem but I worry that having > > variables that users should touch and not touch and variables

Re: [Openembedded-architecture] New assignment operator?

On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 8:48 AM Mark Hatle wrote: > On 6/15/21 10:10 AM, Phil Blundell via lists.openembedded.org wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 02:29:16PM +0100, Richard Purdie wrote: > >> For that reason I would like to change the initramfs recipe somehow to > >> improve usability and

Re: [Openembedded-architecture] meta-gplv2 support from YP testing in master

On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 1:14 PM Alexander Kanavin wrote: > On Wed, 22 Jan 2020 at 22:08, Andre McCurdy wrote: >> Another tricky point is libraries such as gmp and nettle, which are >> now either LGPLv3 (and so problematic for signed firmware images, etc) >> or GPLv

Re: [Openembedded-architecture] meta-gplv2 support from YP testing in master

On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 6:25 AM Ross Burton wrote: > On 22/01/2020 13:27, Alexander Kanavin wrote: > > Note that there is already a test for gpl3-free images in > > meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/incompatible_lic.py > > > > Currently minimal and full-cmdline images are tested (the latter with > >

Re: [Openembedded-architecture] Yocto support for Centos-7 (RHEL-7): drop in early 2020?

On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 9:55 PM Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 08:48:04PM -0800, Andre McCurdy wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 7:38 PM Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > > > > There is no need to question whether niche features like gcc or GNOME > >

Re: [Openembedded-architecture] Yocto support for Centos-7 (RHEL-7): drop in early 2020?

On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 7:38 PM Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 06:31:30PM -0800, Andre McCurdy wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 5:13 PM Denys Dmytriyenko wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 01:30:30PM -0500, Philip Balister wrote: > > > >

Re: [Openembedded-architecture] Yocto support for Centos-7 (RHEL-7): drop in early 2020?

On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 4:14 AM Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 10:29:27AM +, Richard Purdie wrote: > > On Wed, 2019-12-11 at 11:18 +0100, Andreas Müller wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 8:15 AM Diego Santa Cruz via > > > Openembedded-architecture > > > wrote: > > > > While

Re: [Openembedded-architecture] Stable releases and version upgrades

On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 1:00 PM Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 11:35:05AM -0400, Tom Rini wrote: > >... > > I am however asking if the Boost project is an example > > of something that, based on my own history building boost stuff and > > comments from others, if something where