Re: [Openembedded-architecture] [oe] meta-openembedded dunfell maintainer

2020-05-12 Thread Richard Purdie
On Tue, 2020-05-12 at 14:18 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote: > The OE TSC would like to ask if there is anyone interested in stepping > up to look after the dunfell branch of meta-openembedded? > > dunfell is an LTS release for Yocto Project and it would be good to > have some kind o

[Openembedded-architecture] meta-openembedded dunfell maintainer

2020-05-12 Thread Richard Purdie
The OE TSC would like to ask if there is anyone interested in stepping up to look after the dunfell branch of meta-openembedded? dunfell is an LTS release for Yocto Project and it would be good to have some kind of plan for meta-openembedded as well. We believe the 'policy' for the branch would

Re: [OE-core] [Openembedded-architecture] Proposal: community maintained recipes in oe-core

2020-05-07 Thread Richard Purdie
On Thu, 2020-05-07 at 15:24 +0200, Alexander Kanavin wrote: > On Thu, 7 May 2020 at 14:38, Jens Rehsack wrote: > > > I agree there should be a way to update maintainers e-main once > > we determine they are not longer willing to take part in that > > program or absent. I believe this an issue in

Re: [Openembedded-architecture] [OE-core] Usrmerge distro feature and glibc ABIList

2020-04-23 Thread Richard Purdie
On Thu, 2020-04-23 at 22:03 +, Oleksandr Ocheretnyi via lists.openembedded.org wrote: > I've noticed that patch > http://cgit.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/tree/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-9.3/0011-Define-GLIBC_DYNAMIC_LINKER-and-UCLIBC_DYNAMIC_LINKE.patch?h=dunfell > applied to gcc

Re: [Openembedded-architecture] Concerns about multilib bugs

2020-04-22 Thread Richard Purdie
On Wed, 2020-04-22 at 13:45 +, chris.lapla...@agilent.com wrote: > > DEPENDS[filter] = "prefix_filter('${MLPREFIX}') > > suffix_filter('${MY_SUFFIX}')" > > > > as it might be more obvious and searchable through grep? I don't > > like ";" as a > > delimiter as it doesn't work well with

Re: [Openembedded-architecture] Concerns about multilib bugs

2020-04-22 Thread Richard Purdie
On Tue, 2020-04-21 at 21:51 -0500, Joshua Watt wrote: > On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 12:04 PM Richard Purdie > wrote: > Continuing the discussion from the OE TSC meeting, now that I've had > a little time to digest the idea: I don't think the filter functions > are necessarily a ba

Re: [Openembedded-architecture] Concerns about multilib bugs

2020-04-22 Thread Richard Purdie
On Wed, 2020-04-22 at 08:21 +0100, Paul Barker wrote: > On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 18:04:34 +0100 > "Richard Purdie" wrote: > > > I'm a bit worried about some of the mulitlib issues we've seen > > recently. In particular we have a bug where license exclusion > >

[Openembedded-architecture] Concerns about multilib bugs

2020-04-19 Thread Richard Purdie
I'm a bit worried about some of the mulitlib issues we've seen recently. In particular we have a bug where license exclusion doesn't work properly in multilib builds, which is fairly serious. To dive into the details of what I found, as things stand today, the code sequence is: a)

Re: [Openembedded-architecture] buildtools-extended-tarball wrapping builds

2020-03-09 Thread Richard Purdie
On Mon, 2020-03-09 at 12:52 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sat, Mar 07, 2020 at 04:17:28PM +0000, Richard Purdie wrote: > > ... > > This does mean we could drop gcc 4.8/4.9 support if we wanted to > > and > > rely on the tarball support for centos7/debian8. > > ..

[Openembedded-architecture] buildtools-extended-tarball wrapping builds

2020-03-07 Thread Richard Purdie
Hi, I just wanted to mention that we now have the ability to wrap builds on specific workers with specific buildtools tarballs. Currently this functionality is in master, we do have the option of porting the helper code to other stable branches. We have had multiple issues, with the

Re: [Openembedded-architecture] Does YP provide security support for stable and LTS branches?

2020-03-06 Thread Richard Purdie
On Fri, 2020-03-06 at 12:04 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > For most community companies there is no clear Return on Investment > if they would use the opportunity to invest in upstream involvement. That isn't true. If you fix something yourself and hold the change you get to maintain it. If you work

[Openembedded-architecture] Yocto Project Long Term Support (LTS) Announced

2020-03-03 Thread Richard Purdie
Its posted at: https://www.yoctoproject.org/yocto-project-long-term-support-announced/ but I'll copy it below since this is an important announcement """ To fulfill the evolving requirements of its members and users, the Yocto Project announced a new plan to extend support for selected releases.

Re: [Openembedded-architecture] Future of sato and X in oe-core

2020-02-11 Thread Richard Purdie
Hi Alex, Thanks for bringing this up. On Tue, 2020-02-11 at 13:49 +0100, Alexander Kanavin wrote: > I'd like to lay out a few ideas/thoughts on what should be done with > sato (matchbox bits) and X going forward. The inputs are: > > - Red Hat is the only company doing X maintenance anymore, and

Re: [Openembedded-architecture] Yocto Project stable release changes

2020-02-03 Thread Richard Purdie
On Mon, 2020-02-03 at 19:23 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 07:58:54AM -0800, akuster808 wrote: > > On 2/3/20 1:38 AM, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 02, 2020 at 11:48:49PM +0000, Richard Purdie wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2020-02-03 at

Re: [Openembedded-architecture] Yocto Project stable release changes

2020-02-02 Thread Richard Purdie
On Mon, 2020-02-03 at 01:13 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > 1. The Yocto focus on point releases is below the standard of other >distributions (also for non-LTS stable series) > > Having well-tested point releases every 3 or 6 months sounds good at > first sight. The problem is that most

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

2020-01-18 Thread Richard Purdie
Hi, This is ultimately a decision the YP TSC will need to make (it concerns YP testing) but I wanted to give people an opportunity to provide feedback. There are two patch series for OE-Core master which both break meta- gplv2. I personally have no enthusiasm for that layer and I don't think its

[Openembedded-architecture] Yocto Project stable release changes

2019-12-18 Thread Richard Purdie
There has been a lot of discussion about stable releases and how the project might handle them going forward. The TSC has put together some process/policy information on the project wiki: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/LTS As part of this we've included information about how an LTS could

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

2019-12-11 Thread Richard Purdie
On Wed, 2019-12-11 at 14:13 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 10:29:27AM +0000, 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 > > > Openembedde

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

2019-12-11 Thread Richard Purdie
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: > > > -Original Message- > > > From: openembedded-architecture-boun...@lists.openembedded.org > > > On > > > Behalf Of > > > Khem Raj > > >

[Openembedded-architecture] OE-Core python minimum version requirement

2019-12-04 Thread Richard Purdie
I just enabled hashequiv's server in local mode by default in poky. This causes an unintended side effect of requiring python 3.5 as the minimum version. We had thought that the servers would be 'rare' and a 3.5 version requirement for that was fine. It turns out a local server is also extremely

Re: [Openembedded-architecture] Heterogeneous System Proposal

2019-12-02 Thread Richard Purdie
On Mon, 2019-12-02 at 17:19 -0600, Mark Hatle wrote: > > On 12/2/19 3:58 PM, Richard Purdie wrote: > > On Mon, 2019-12-02 at 15:37 -0600, Mark Hatle wrote: > > > In all of the above examples, the user has manually configured > > > the > > > multiconfig withi

Re: [Openembedded-architecture] Heterogeneous System Proposal

2019-12-02 Thread Richard Purdie
On Mon, 2019-12-02 at 15:27 -0800, Alejandro Enedino Hernandez Samaniego wrote: > So I have tried something similar to this, and while it does work, > due to some parsing issue (I still have not figured out exactly what) > the multiconfig dependencies between multiconfigs are not being taken >

Re: [Openembedded-architecture] Heterogeneous System Proposal

2019-12-02 Thread Richard Purdie
On Mon, 2019-12-02 at 21:58 +, Richard Purdie wrote: > On Mon, 2019-12-02 at 15:37 -0600, Mark Hatle wrote: > > In all of the above examples, the user has manually configured the > > multiconfig within their project. There is a simple way to move > > that > > confi

[Openembedded-architecture] Disbanding SWAT team/process

2019-11-21 Thread Richard Purdie
It is with reluctance, after discussion with the TSC, that we've decided to disband the build failure SWAT process. The reason is simple, there were no longer enough people willing to participate in the process to make it viable. This process was there to try and offload some of the build

Re: [Openembedded-architecture] Yocto Project LTS Proposal/Discussion

2019-10-26 Thread Richard Purdie
On Sat, 2019-10-26 at 10:34 -0400, Rich Persaud wrote: > On Oct 26, 2019, at 7:11 AM, richard.pur...@linuxfoundation.org > wrote: > > On Fri, 2019-10-25 at 16:04 -0400, Rich Persaud wrote: > > > There may be lessons in Microsoft's move from diverse hardware to > > > VM- > > > based testing: > > >

Re: [Openembedded-architecture] Yocto Project LTS Proposal/Discussion

2019-10-26 Thread richard . purdie
On Fri, 2019-10-25 at 16:04 -0400, Rich Persaud wrote: > There may be lessons in Microsoft's move from diverse hardware to VM- > based testing: > https://www.ghacks.net/2019/09/23/former-microsoft-employee-explains-why-bugs-in-windows-updates-increased/ I don't disagreed, real hardware does have

[Openembedded-architecture] Yocto Project LTS Proposal/Discussion

2019-10-24 Thread Richard Purdie
I'm posting this to openembedded-architecture since it probably is the best place for discussions about OE/Yocto planning. The Yocto Project TSC believes one of the things needed for YP and for OE is more information being pulled together about how an LTS release could work. The document linked

Re: [Openembedded-architecture] Removing LSB support from OE

2019-07-15 Thread richard . purdie
On Mon, 2019-07-15 at 15:35 +0100, Burton, Ross wrote: > On Mon, 15 Jul 2019 at 15:33, > wrote: > > > Would you expect the yocto LSB kernels support move to that layer > > > as > > > well? IIRC, these the the ones that build the LTS kernels. > > > > No, "poky-lsb" should really be renamed

Re: [Openembedded-architecture] Removing LSB support from OE

2019-07-15 Thread richard . purdie
On Mon, 2019-07-15 at 07:25 -0700, akuster808 wrote: > On 7/15/19 2:34 AM, Richard Purdie wrote: > > Its been discussed before and I think everyone agrees that it > > should > > move to its own layer. I will therefore take a patch which does > > that. > > >

Re: [Openembedded-architecture] Syntax for multiple overrides?

2019-06-12 Thread richard . purdie
On Wed, 2019-06-12 at 08:44 -0500, Joshua Watt wrote: > On 6/12/19 7:35 AM, Richard Purdie wrote: > > I'm not 100% sure whether I like this idea or not but wanted to > > share > > it and see what others think. > > > > We're looking at a recipe which

[Openembedded-architecture] Newcomer bugs

2019-05-02 Thread Richard Purdie
Apologies for cross posting but I wanted a wider audience to see this. The triage team is starting to try and collect up and classify bugs which a newcomer to the project would be able to work on in a way which means people can find them. They're being listed on the triage page under the

[Openembedded-architecture] Yocto Project 2.8 Planning

2019-05-02 Thread Richard Purdie
Hi All, I just wanted to highlight that we're in the planning process for 2.8. The google doc we're using for brainstorming is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CNEKA4d0eT6-e0hnS2pwi7xdZ5_t6smpZO2HbaJGXbU/ I've gone through and turned most of the things I contributed there into bugs in

Re: [Openembedded-architecture] [yocto] [OE-core] Eclipse support dropped with immediate effect

2019-04-11 Thread richard . purdie
On Thu, 2019-04-11 at 08:42 +0530, akuster808 wrote: > > On 4/10/19 3:11 PM, richard.pur...@linuxfoundation.org wrote: > > On Wed, 2019-04-10 at 05:56 +0530, akuster808 wrote: > > > On 4/9/19 8:52 PM, Richard Purdie wrote: > > > > I'm sorry to have to say th

[Openembedded-architecture] Eclipse support dropped with immediate effect

2019-04-09 Thread Richard Purdie
I'm sorry to have to say this but the project is terminating its official eclipse plugin support with immediate effect. There is nobody willing to keep the builds going, fix bugs, port to new eclipse releases or release the current plugin. This has been raised in many forums, multiple times and

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

2019-03-18 Thread Richard Purdie
On Mon, 2019-03-18 at 10:26 -0500, Mark Hatle wrote: > Let me start out with, I'm not against this proposal. > > But, I want to mention the cases in my experience where people get > upset with version numbers changing. > > 1) "Regulated devices". For some reason there are a class of devices >

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

2019-03-18 Thread Richard Purdie
On Mon, 2019-03-18 at 10:46 -0400, Tom Rini wrote: > On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 02:01:37PM +, Burton, Ross wrote: > > I don't really have a strong opinion on the mechanics behind > > documenting the behaviour, but how do we decide what upstreams have > > a > > suitable stable release? We don't

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

2019-03-18 Thread Richard Purdie
On Mon, 2019-03-18 at 15:59 +0100, Martin Jansa wrote: > On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 12:49:17PM +0000, Richard Purdie wrote: > > Recently this issue came to light around some lttng* version > > upgrades. > > I do think that particular upstream is in keeping with what we'd > &

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

2019-03-18 Thread Richard Purdie
On Mon, 2019-03-18 at 10:30 -0400, Jonathan Rajotte-Julien wrote: > Note I did not cc the mailing list since > I think it is moving the discussion away from the main focus. It did make the list and FWIW I think it is important to ensure people understand why we're dropping certain patches or

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

2019-03-18 Thread Richard Purdie
On Mon, 2019-03-18 at 14:01 +, Burton, Ross wrote: > On Mon, 18 Mar 2019 at 12:49, Richard Purdie > wrote: > > My proposal is therefore that where an upstream has a stable > > release > > mechanism, we should work with that in OE-Core, taking direct > > stable &g

[Openembedded-architecture] Stable releases and version upgrades

2019-03-18 Thread Richard Purdie
Since we established the stable branch maintenance guidelines for OE- Core the world has changed a little. I'd like to propose we update the guidelines to reflect this changing world and the current best practises. Partly this change has been influenced by a discussion I was part of where GregKH

[Openembedded-architecture] New QA process/tooling

2019-02-25 Thread Richard Purdie
I wanted to mention we now have a few developments working in our QA process/tooling workflow. --- In summary: We have buildhistory data comparing -next/mut builds to master:

Re: [Openembedded-architecture] Incorporating deploy artefacts from one multiconfig in another multiconfig

2019-02-23 Thread Richard Purdie
On Thu, 2019-02-21 at 20:09 -0500, Rich Persaud wrote: > > On Feb 21, 2019, at 18:51, Richard Purdie < > > richard.pur...@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > > > Multiconfig is meant to support this workflow. Unfortunately there > > are > > open bugs and pe

Re: [Openembedded-architecture] Incorporating deploy artefacts from one multiconfig in another multiconfig

2019-02-21 Thread Richard Purdie
On Thu, 2019-02-21 at 20:09 -0500, Rich Persaud wrote: > > On Feb 21, 2019, at 18:51, Richard Purdie < > > richard.pur...@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > > > Multiconfig is meant to support this workflow. Unfortunately there > > are > > open bugs and pe

Re: [Openembedded-architecture] Incorporating deploy artefacts from one multiconfig in another multiconfig

2019-02-21 Thread Richard Purdie
Multiconfig is meant to support this workflow. Unfortunately there are open bugs and people haven't the time to work on it so its stalled. That said, the key pieces are already there. A picture is worth a thousand words. I thought a demo might interest people and "prove" this can work. To make

Re: [Openembedded-architecture] Interactive password prompts and the git fetcher

2018-09-04 Thread Richard Purdie
On Tue, 2018-09-04 at 16:18 +1200, Paul Eggleton wrote: > Hi folks, > > In the layer index / RRS code I have found that if it tries to use > bitbake's git fetcher to access a git repository on github that has > been renamed or gone private via http/https, I get prompted for a > password

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