[OE-core] what's the proper list to ask basic questions about bitbake?

2012-06-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] strace: update to 4.7

2012-06-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
redundancy involving using both _EXTRA_ and += in the same directive. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter

[OE-core] some simple questions about assignment and appending

2012-06-19 Thread Robert P. J. Day
as clear, and you have to backtrack to see how CORE_IMAGE_BASE_INSTALL is assigned. or would that not be equivalent based on a misunderstanding of how assignment works? rday -- Robert P. J. Day

[OE-core] proper use of CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL?

2012-06-19 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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Re: [OE-core] getting rid of SRC_URI_append uses with +=

2012-06-19 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 19 Jun 2012, Paul Eggleton wrote: On Tuesday 19 June 2012 11:04:06 Robert P. J. Day wrote: a while back, i pointed out odd instances of: meta/recipes-support/gmp/gmp_5.0.4.bb:SRC_URI_append += file://use-includedir.patch \ meta/recipes-graphics/tslib/tslib_1.0

Re: [OE-core] proper use of CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL?

2012-06-19 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 19 Jun 2012, Paul Eggleton wrote: On Tuesday 19 June 2012 13:05:35 Robert P. J. Day wrote: ... snip ... now this would seem to be exactly what the variable CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL was invented for, no? certainly the above will work but then what's the point of having

Re: [OE-core] some simple questions about assignment and appending

2012-06-19 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 19 Jun 2012, Paul Eggleton wrote: On Tuesday 19 June 2012 12:28:22 Robert P. J. Day wrote: finally, what are the evaluation mechanics of the ?= operator? ?= is the same as = except that it only sets the value if it is not already set at the time the line is parsed. just so i

[OE-core] [PATCH] Simplify SRC_URI_append += to SRC_URI_append =

2012-06-19 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca --- diff --git a/meta/recipes-graphics/tslib/tslib_1.0.bb b/meta/recipes-graphics/tslib/tslib_1.0.bb index 54ff3d4..2c4b325 100644 --- a/meta/recipes-graphics/tslib/tslib_1.0.bb +++ b/meta/recipes-graphics/tslib/tslib_1.0.bb @@ -21,8 +21,8

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] Simplify SRC_URI_append += to SRC_URI_append =

2012-06-19 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 19 Jun 2012, Khem Raj wrote: Thanks for doing this On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: +SRC_URI_append_poky = file://owl-menu.patch;apply=yes while you are at it can you remove apply=yes from there ? since thats the default anyway

[OE-core] [PATCH] Simplify SRC_URI_append += to SRC_URI_append =

2012-06-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca --- second attempt ... diff --git a/meta/recipes-graphics/tslib/tslib_1.0.bb b/meta/recipes-graphics/tslib/tslib_1.0.bb index 54ff3d4..2c4b325 100644 --- a/meta/recipes-graphics/tslib/tslib_1.0.bb +++ b/meta/recipes-graphics/tslib

[OE-core] oddities related to _append and _prepend in oe-core

2012-06-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
didn't see anything obviously amiss there. thoughts? longer post on appends and conditional appends coming shortly. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA

Re: [OE-core] oddities related to _append and _prepend in oe-core

2012-06-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 20 Jun 2012, Phil Blundell wrote: On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 08:14 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: inspired by richard purdie's correction of my original patch, i did a quick grep to see if i could find any oddities related, first, to uses of _append; specifically, where the string being

[OE-core] is there a better forum for me to ask these sorts of questions?

2012-06-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
of necessary for what i'm trying to do. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http

[OE-core] clarifying types of append/prepend, conditional and otherwise

2012-06-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
not looking the right way. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com

Re: [OE-core] oddities related to _append and _prepend in oe-core

2012-06-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
such a minefield. nothing personal. :-) perhaps i'll start collecting style guide suggestions. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http

[OE-core] CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL has potential to be misleading?

2012-06-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
. thoughts? rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn

[OE-core] [PATCH] Fix typoes, enviroment

2012-06-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca --- diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/bison/bison/bison-2.3_m4.patch b/meta/recipes-devtools/bison/bison/bison-2.3_m4.patch index 348ce1d..f63b92e 100644 --- a/meta/recipes-devtools/bison/bison/bison-2.3_m4.patch +++ b/meta/recipes

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] Fix typoes, enviroment

2012-06-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 20 Jun 2012, Richard Purdie wrote: On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 16:20 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca --- I've replied about these before. The typos are in upstream components we don't control. Fixing a typo in the patch will mean

[OE-core] superfluous download locations in oe-core's bitbake.conf

2012-06-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
but there seems to be little value in defining download locations that aren't used by anything actually in oe-core. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http

Re: [OE-core] superfluous download locations in oe-core's bitbake.conf

2012-06-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 22 Jun 2012, Paul Eggleton wrote: On Thursday 21 June 2012 04:56:51 Robert P. J. Day wrote: given that oe-core is defined as being a really minimal configuration with no extraneous cruft, there seems to be a number of unnecessary download locations in the shipped bitbake.conf

[OE-core] should kernel-arch.bbclass be returning arm26?

2012-06-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
see subject -- arm26 is no longer a valid kernel arch subdirectory, it was removed back in 2008. should i submit a patch to take out that check? rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario

[OE-core] [PATCH] Remove reference to long-dead arm26 architecture.

2012-06-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca --- diff --git a/meta/classes/kernel-arch.bbclass b/meta/classes/kernel-arch.bbclass index e186422..4a30192 100644 --- a/meta/classes/kernel-arch.bbclass +++ b/meta/classes/kernel-arch.bbclass @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ valid_archs = alpha cris ia64

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] Remove reference to long-dead arm26 architecture.

2012-06-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012, Saul Wold wrote: On 06/23/2012 11:46 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: Robert, Could you please resend this with the correct commit message format. The subject should list the filename/module first as follows: kernel-arch: Remove reference to long-dead arm26 architecture

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 20/20] fetch: allow regexps in mirror protocol

2012-06-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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[OE-core] any subtle reason for using BPN with ALLOW_EMPTY instead of just PN?

2012-06-29 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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Re: [OE-core] any subtle reason for using BPN with ALLOW_EMPTY instead of just PN?

2012-06-29 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 29 Jun 2012, raj.khem wrote: On Friday, June 29, 2012, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote:  in current poky ref manual, the explanation of ALLOW_EMPTY talks about using it with a package name, as in:  ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN} = 1 which makes perfect sense, except

[OE-core] kernel-arch: Remove test for long-dead arm26 architecture.

2012-06-29 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca --- diff --git a/meta/classes/kernel-arch.bbclass b/meta/classes/kernel-arch.bbclass index e186422..4a30192 100644 --- a/meta/classes/kernel-arch.bbclass +++ b/meta/classes/kernel-arch.bbclass @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ valid_archs = alpha cris ia64

[OE-core] is the PRIORITY variable actually used anywhere?

2012-06-30 Thread Robert P. J. Day
noticed this in bitbake.conf: PRIORITY = optional but i've seen no actual usage of that variable anywhere. is anyone or anything actually making use of it? rday -- Robert P. J. Day

Re: [OE-core] is the PRIORITY variable actually used anywhere?

2012-06-30 Thread Robert P. J. Day
, Jun 30, 2012 at 3:02 AM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: noticed this in bitbake.conf: PRIORITY = optional but i've seen no actual usage of that variable anywhere. is anyone or anything actually making use of it? ok, i'll just make a note of that as i'm currently

Re: [OE-core] is the PRIORITY variable actually used anywhere?

2012-06-30 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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[OE-core] poky ref variable glossary seems to define IMAGE_ROOTFS_SIZE inaccurately

2012-06-30 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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[OE-core] does it make sense to define INITSCRIPT_* without inheriting update-rc.d?

2012-06-30 Thread Robert P. J. Day
file somehow takes care of things. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http

[OE-core] is it best practice to use ${sysconfdir} rather than hard-coding /etc?

2012-06-30 Thread Robert P. J. Day
} install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d install usb-gether ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d } the end result is functionally identical, of course, it's all just a matter of style. rday -- Robert P. J. Day

Re: [OE-core] is it best practice to use ${sysconfdir} rather than hard-coding /etc?

2012-06-30 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 30 Jun 2012, Martin Jansa wrote: On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 09:25:57AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: i suspect i know the answer to this, but in the recipe file usbinit.bb, we have: do_install() { install -d ${D}/etc install -d ${D}/etc/init.d install usb

Re: [OE-core] does it make sense to define INITSCRIPT_* without inheriting update-rc.d?

2012-06-30 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 30 Jun 2012, Andrei Gherzan wrote: No. It won't make a difference. Or actually it makes a tiny difference: check package.bbclass, function named gen_packagevar. On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote:  currently figuring out details

Re: [OE-core] does it make sense to define INITSCRIPT_* without inheriting update-rc.d?

2012-06-30 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 30 Jun 2012, Mark Hatle wrote: On 6/30/12 9:57 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Sat, 30 Jun 2012, Andrei Gherzan wrote: No. It won't make a difference. Or actually it makes a tiny difference: check package.bbclass, function named gen_packagevar. On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 3

[OE-core] irda-utils: Add missing inherit update-rc.d for INITSCRIPT_*

2012-06-30 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca --- diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/irda-utils/irda-utils_0.9.18.bb b/meta/recipes-connectivity/irda-utils/irda-utils_0.9.18.bb index a000a78..575b0b1 100644 --- a/meta/recipes-connectivity/irda-utils/irda-utils_0.9.18.bb +++ b/meta

[OE-core] a few more questions (and apparent doc fixes) for INITSCRIPT_* variables

2012-06-30 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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[OE-core] bitbake.conf: Tidy up a few comment typoes; no functional changes.

2012-07-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca --- diff --git a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf index 9377ee6..0a177c8 100644 --- a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf +++ b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf @@ -368,7 +368,7 @@ DEPLOY_DIR_TOOLS = ${DEPLOY_DIR}/tools PKGDATA_DIR = ${TMPDIR

Re: [OE-core] is the PRIORITY variable actually used anywhere?

2012-07-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 2 Jul 2012, Richard Purdie wrote: On Sat, 2012-06-30 at 06:20 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Sat, 30 Jun 2012, Martin Jansa wrote: http://git.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded/commit/?id=040f75eca217c79fed7b881589d9bb36358cffe1 http://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core

Re: [OE-core] is the PRIORITY variable actually used anywhere?

2012-07-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 2 Jul 2012, Paul Eggleton wrote: On Monday 02 July 2012 07:29:08 Robert P. J. Day wrote: oelint.bbclass currently suggests it can be any of standard, required, optional or extra. and perhaps a dumb question -- how are there *two* default values? not sure what that means. It's

[OE-core] can i use bitbake to run an arbitrary python routine in a class file?

2012-07-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
a current build? can i do that? does that question even make sense? rday p.s. i am documenting all these answers, so they're not disappearing into the ether. -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa

Re: [OE-core] can i use bitbake to run an arbitrary python routine in a class file?

2012-07-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 2 Jul 2012, Chris Larson wrote: On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 6:40 AM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: i'm not even remotely a python expert (working on that, though) so there may be a trivial and documented answer to this -- can i use bitbake to run an arbitrary python

[OE-core] is there a standard for inheriting from core-image?

2012-07-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
to use here, no? -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn

[OE-core] any value in still accommodating pcmcia-cs?

2012-07-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
given that pcmcia-cs has *long* been deprecated in favour of pcmciautils, is there any value in still supporting pcmcia-cs? rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA

[OE-core] pcmcia-cs: Remove references to long-deprecated pcmcia-cs.

2012-07-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
pcmciautils is the appropriate PCMCIA package these days. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca --- the only reference left to pcmcia-cs is this acceptable historical reference: $ grep -r pcmcia-cs * meta/recipes-core/udev/udev/network.sh:# Code taken from pcmcia-cs:/etc

[OE-core] what's the easiest way to download *all* recipe-referenced tarballs?

2012-07-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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Re: [OE-core] what's the easiest way to download *all* recipe-referenced tarballs?

2012-07-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 3 Jul 2012, Saul Wold wrote: On 07/03/2012 08:54 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: followup to once upon a time post of mine, i'm prepping to give a tutorial in OE/yocto, and it would be nice if the client could, ahead of time, set up a premirror of every conceivable tarball

[OE-core] recent intro of obvious comment typo in core-image.bbclass

2012-07-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
# IMAGE_FEAETURES_REPLACES_foo = 'bar1 bar2' someone else is welcome to do with that what they will. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http

[OE-core] can i move between build dirs just by resetting BUILDDIR env var?

2012-07-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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[OE-core] prexport.bbclass: Fix typo in warning: AUROPR - AUTOPR.

2012-07-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca --- i'm *assuming* this is the correct fix. diff --git a/meta/classes/prexport.bbclass b/meta/classes/prexport.bbclass index 2b16a66..b990c2b 100644 --- a/meta/classes/prexport.bbclass +++ b/meta/classes/prexport.bbclass @@ -21,7 +21,7

[OE-core] was someone going to remove the MACHINE-related stuff from scripts/runqemu?

2012-07-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
a while back, i pointed out that some of the help printed from scripts/runqemu is clearly wrong -- anything to do with that MACHINE variable. was someone going to fix that? rday -- Robert P. J. Day

[OE-core] why would a recipe have both do_install() and do_install_append()?

2012-07-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
() routine? i'm willing for this to be a dumb question. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter

Re: [OE-core] why would a recipe have both do_install() and do_install_append()?

2012-07-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 4 Jul 2012, Andreas Oberritter wrote: On 04.07.2012 08:32, Khem Raj wrote: On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: i'm probably just misreading something, but what is the point of a recipe having both a do_install() and do_install_append

[OE-core] recipes.txt: Add entries for recipes-rt and recipes-support

2012-07-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca --- diff --git a/meta/recipes.txt b/meta/recipes.txt index bf7f19e..6d33743 100644 --- a/meta/recipes.txt +++ b/meta/recipes.txt @@ -9,5 +9,7 @@ recipes-graphics - X and other graphically related system libraries recipes-kernel

Re: [OE-core] why would a recipe have both do_install() and do_install_append()?

2012-07-05 Thread Robert P. J. Day
/man/man_1.6f.bb meta/recipes-extended/logrotate/logrotate_3.8.1.bb $ obviously, it doesn't hurt, it just seems unnecessary. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA

[OE-core] is there a bitbake variation that will tell me about *only* the used packages?

2012-07-05 Thread Robert P. J. Day
, not just for, say, core-image-minimal. is there a variation that will tell me that info only for the recipes that will be used for a given target? rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA

Re: [OE-core] is there a bitbake variation that will tell me about *only* the used packages?

2012-07-05 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 5 Jul 2012, Paul Eggleton wrote: On Thursday 05 July 2012 13:14:32 Robert P. J. Day wrote: it's possible i'm misreading something, but i want to display a list of recipes and their versions that will go into the given target. i configured for qemuarm and i want to bitbake core

[OE-core] someone broke the bitbake user manual

2012-07-05 Thread Robert P. J. Day
it needs this: diff --git a/doc/manual/usermanual.xml b/doc/manual/usermanual.xml index 81b301a..e776b43 100644 --- a/doc/manual/usermanual.xml +++ b/doc/manual/usermanual.xml @@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ SRC_URI_append_1.0.7+ = file://some_patch_which_the_new_versions_need.patch;pat

[OE-core] seems like links to bitbake need to be updated in places

2012-07-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
/Getting_started down in the section Getting a working bitbake. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter

Re: [OE-core] ALLOW_EMPTY versus ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN}? a couple clarifications

2012-07-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 6 Jul 2012, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: W dniu 06.07.2012 15:10, Robert P. J. Day pisze: just trying to clarify the gory details of the ALLOW_EMPTY setting. first, across several .bb files, there is a mixture of these two: ALLOW_EMPTY = 1 ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN} = 1 what's

[OE-core] wanting to clarify patch mechanics

2012-07-07 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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[OE-core] fetcher protocols not worth documenting?

2012-07-07 Thread Robert P. J. Day
misremembering? rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday

Re: [OE-core] wanting to clarify patch mechanics

2012-07-07 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 7 Jul 2012, Martin Jansa wrote: On Sat, Jul 07, 2012 at 06:04:07AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: speaking of apply, it would seem that apply=yes is redundant, is that correct? there are a couple dozen examples of that throughout oe-core, mostly in the bash recipe file

[OE-core] FETCHCMD versus FETCHCOMMAND

2012-07-07 Thread Robert P. J. Day
of that, just an observation about consistency. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http

[OE-core] tcf-agent, matchbox-wm-2: Correct proto=git to protocol=git.

2012-07-07 Thread Robert P. J. Day
proto=git is not a valid parameter for the git fetcher. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca --- normally, i wouldn't pick on stuff like this but as i read git.py, it seems pretty clear that proto=git isn't even a valid parameter. a cleaner solution would be to remove all

[OE-core] what's the easiest way to see the difference some local configuration makes?

2012-07-07 Thread Robert P. J. Day
, and features and so on, and let the student see the effect of each change. what's the easiest way to do that? thanks. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA

Re: [OE-core] what's the easiest way to see the difference some local configuration makes?

2012-07-07 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 7 Jul 2012, Saul Wold wrote: On 07/07/2012 08:43 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: i recall that there's a current request to be able to list the packages and versions that relate *just* to the current target and machine, so i'm looking for any other way to do this so students can

[OE-core] setting EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES explicitly in .bb file can screw things up

2012-07-07 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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[OE-core] more pedantry -- looking to clarify layers definition, BBPATH, BBFILES, etc.

2012-07-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
will cause grief, no? rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday

Re: [OE-core] setting EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES explicitly in .bb file can screw things up

2012-07-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 7 Jul 2012, Robert P. J. Day wrote: a while back, i whined about the inconsistent usage of EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES, like this as a snippet: meta/recipes-sato/images/core-image-sato-sdk.bb:EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES += tools-debug tools-profile tools-testapps debug-tweaks meta/recipes-rt

Re: [OE-core] setting EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES explicitly in .bb file can screw things up

2012-07-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 9 Jul 2012, Andrei Gherzan wrote: On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 9:52 PM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote:   a while back, i whined about the inconsistent usage of EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES, like this as a snippet: meta/recipes-sato/images/core-image-sato

[OE-core] core-image-*.bb: Remove usage of EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES from some .bb files

2012-07-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Replace the usage of EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES in a small number of .bb files with IMAGE_FEATURES, and leave the use of EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES for developers in their local.conf files, to avoid the possibility of undesirable side effects. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca --- i

Re: [OE-core] more pedantry -- looking to clarify layers definition, BBPATH, BBFILES, etc.

2012-07-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 9 Jul 2012, Andrei Gherzan wrote: On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 8:59 PM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote:   (most of this is sort of self-evident but it's not documented as well as it could be so i just want to make sure i have it exactly right

Re: [OE-core] tcf-agent, matchbox-wm-2: Correct proto=git to protocol=git.

2012-07-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
, Jul 7, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote:         proto=git is not a valid parameter for the git fetcher. NOTE: package matchbox-wm-2-0.1+git1 +01fa5465743c9ee43d040350f4405d35293e4869-r1: task do_fetch: Succeeded

Re: [OE-core] more pedantry -- looking to clarify layers definition, BBPATH, BBFILES, etc.

2012-07-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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[OE-core] does anything actually use BBVERSIONS?

2012-07-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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Re: [OE-core] bitbake.conf: Add git-native to ASSUME_PROVIDED

2012-07-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 10 Jul 2012, Richard Purdie wrote: On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 10:02 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Tue, 10 Jul 2012, Richard Purdie wrote: # its own in staging ASSUME_PROVIDED = \ bzip2-native \ +git-native \ grep-native \ diffstat-native

Re: [OE-core] bitbake.conf: Add git-native to ASSUME_PROVIDED

2012-07-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
their current distro. that way, it's entirely optional and the developer deals with the output at their own risk. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http

Re: [OE-core] bitbake.conf: Add git-native to ASSUME_PROVIDED

2012-07-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 10 Jul 2012, Khem Raj wrote: On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: my opinion, which is mine, is to add a script someone can run that tells them what appears to be safe to override from their current distro. that way, it's entirely

Re: [OE-core] does anything actually use BBVERSIONS?

2012-07-11 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 10 Jul 2012, Chris Larson wrote: On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 1:58 AM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: perusing bitbake user manual, came across section 2.1.20 which mentions BBVERSIONS, but i don't see any current usage of it. is it still actively used anywhere

[OE-core] should linux-yocto_3.4.bb have a bareclone=1 parameter?

2012-07-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
that to bareclone? rday p.s. under meta-skeleton, linux-yocto-custom.bb also includes nocheckout instead of bareclone. just an observation. -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA

Re: [OE-core] should linux-yocto_3.4.bb have a bareclone=1 parameter?

2012-07-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 14 Jul 2012, Bruce Ashfield wrote: On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 8:00 AM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: building for qemuarm and noticed that the log.do_kernel_checkout file warned me about SRC_URI not including bareclone=1, which is true -- unlike all of the rest

[OE-core] is LINUX_VERSION actually needed for a kernel checkout?

2012-07-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
it's suddenly necessary there.) rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com

Re: [OE-core] is LINUX_VERSION actually needed for a kernel checkout?

2012-07-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 14 Jul 2012, Khem Raj wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 7/14/2012 2:26 PM, Bruce Ashfield wrote: On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: pawing my way through the kernel recipe file and checkout code so i

[OE-core] isn't the check for a matching meta branch a bit too forgiving?

2012-07-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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[OE-core] kernel-yocto.bbclass: Fix some obvious typoes in comments.

2012-07-15 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca --- diff --git a/meta/classes/kernel-yocto.bbclass b/meta/classes/kernel-yocto.bbclass index 48c8974..ca2e837 100644 --- a/meta/classes/kernel-yocto.bbclass +++ b/meta/classes/kernel-yocto.bbclass @@ -147,10 +147,10 @@ do_kernel_checkout

[OE-core] kernel-yocto.bbclass: Delete superfluous creation of ${S}/.git directory

2012-07-15 Thread Robert P. J. Day
confusing. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca --- yes, i realize this doesn't change anything, but it's potentially confusing for the code to explicitly create ${S}/.git, shortly before it whomps over top of that directory anyway. i spent a couple minutes puzzling over the above

[OE-core] why are native kern tools both generated and on the meta branch?

2012-07-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
the necessary native kern-tools, even as my meta branch (which is not checked out yet) already contains all of those tools. should i care? rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA

[OE-core] apparently superfluous 'do_kernel_checkout[dirs] = ${S}'

2012-07-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
or something's gone horribly wrong. back to proofreading ... rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter

Re: [OE-core] apparently superfluous 'do_kernel_checkout[dirs] = ${S}'

2012-07-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 16 Jul 2012, Bruce Ashfield wrote: On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 8:49 AM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: yes, more pedantry ... just to make sure i'm (again) not missing anything subtle, but it seems that this line in kernel-yocto.bbclass: do_kernel_checkout[dirs

[OE-core] redundant git fetcher parameters

2012-07-17 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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[OE-core] is there really a fakeroot task flag?

2012-07-17 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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[OE-core] want to confirm that include/require is a pure textual substitution

2012-03-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
early in the OE manual anywhere. is there a plan to revise that manual to incorporate the distinction? is there a newer manual elsewhere? rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA

[OE-core] IMAGE_INSTALL_append versus IMAGE_INSTALL +=?

2012-03-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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[OE-core] IMAGE_FEATURES vs EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES?

2012-03-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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Re: [OE-core] README reference to yocto project seems wrong

2012-03-15 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 15 Mar 2012, Paul Eggleton wrote: On Thursday 08 March 2012 18:35:49 Robert P. J. Day wrote: in the top-level oe-core README file, one reads: The Yocto Project has extensive documentation about OE including a reference manual which can be found at: http

[OE-core] what's the proper place to make comments about the bitbake manual?

2012-03-18 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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Re: [OE-core] what's the proper place to make comments about the bitbake manual?

2012-03-19 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 19 Mar 2012, Paul Eggleton wrote: On Sunday 18 March 2012 15:39:26 Robert P. J. Day wrote: i'm collecting a bunch of observations and suggestions about the current bitbake manual -- should i continue posting them to bitbake-devel...? Yes, please feel free to discuss the manual

Re: [OE-core] what's the proper place to make comments about the bitbake manual?

2012-03-19 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 19 Mar 2012, Paul Eggleton wrote: On Monday 19 March 2012 07:28:10 Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Mon, 19 Mar 2012, Paul Eggleton wrote: On Sunday 18 March 2012 15:39:26 Robert P. J. Day wrote: i'm collecting a bunch of observations and suggestions about the current

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