Re: [OE-core] should a "*git.bb" recipe lock that recipe to a fixed version?

2016-10-30 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 30 Oct 2016, Christopher Larson wrote: > On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 5:25 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> > wrote: > >   not sure if i should have noticed this before, but i was building a > number of python modules, and my collection

[OE-core] postgresql: "Taskhash mismatch"

2016-10-30 Thread Robert P. J. Day
c875f1d5c39516c88f5063e4ba88a7cb for /home/rpjday/oe/dist/layers/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-support/postgresql/postgresql_9.4.8.bb.do_package rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario

[OE-core] should a "*git.bb" recipe lock that recipe to a fixed version?

2016-10-30 Thread Robert P. J. Day
on-to-disable-glx-support.patch \ file://no-need-for-python3.patch \ " SRCREV="e2c33af5bfcfc9d168f9e776156dd47c33f428b3" PV = "1.3.1" it is just my responsibility to notice that, and use PREFERRED_VERSION to make sure i get the version i want? rday -- ===

[OE-core] any issue with duplicate recipes spread over different layers?

2016-10-30 Thread Robert P. J. Day
-six appears in three different layers ... is there any effort expended to identify redundancy and remove it? rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http

[OE-core] mapping centos RPM(s) to OE recipe: example involving openssl-perl

2016-10-29 Thread Robert P. J. Day
unless you explicitly add "perl" to PACKAGECONFIG, it removes them during installation. it has the same effect, i guess, but it seems a bit weird. is there a rationale for doing this? i might have a couple more questions about this particular recipe after i read furth

[OE-core] couple questions about proper PACKAGECONFIG usage

2016-10-29 Thread Robert P. J. Day
it, yes?) actually, that might be it for this post ... am i missing any other subtleties involving PACKAGECONFIG worth mentioning? another PACAKGECONFIG-related post coming shortly, but it's more focused so i'll post it separately. rday -- =

Re: [OE-core] can i arbitrarily mix "meta-debian" recipes into my build?

2016-10-28 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 28 Oct 2016, Burton, Ross wrote: > > On 28 October 2016 at 09:00, Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> wrote: >   more silly questions ... just noticed that some of the recipes i'm > looking for exist under meta-debian; is there any issue with &quo

[OE-core] can i arbitrarily mix "meta-debian" recipes into my build?

2016-10-28 Thread Robert P. J. Day
cipes? or, as long as it seems to work, i can just grab what i want and add it to my current checkout of poky? thanks. rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA

Re: [OE-core] how to add new perl modules to stock OE build?

2016-10-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 27 Oct 2016, Olof Johansson wrote: > On 16-10-27 08:46 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > ack ... never mind, i see my fundamental misunderstanding. i > > thought all of the recipes being processed via the "perl-modules" > > package were bein

Re: [OE-core] how to add new perl modules to stock OE build?

2016-10-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
roof-of-concept, i'd like to add the Text::Template module to my "qemuppc" target. thoughts? sorry for all the earlier noise, i thought i had it figured out but ... no. rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day

[OE-core] how to add new perl modules to stock OE build?

2016-10-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
is this even remotely the right approach? is there an OE/YP manual that explains this somewhere? thanks. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter:

Re: [OE-core] most efficient way to map perl RH rpms to OE package names?

2016-10-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
rap += "${PN}-module-warnings-register" so, AFAICT, i need define only the equivalent information for additional modules i want, and explicitly add those to the list of modules i want built. seems pretty straightforward, am i overlooking anything? r

Re: [OE-core] most efficient way to map perl RH rpms to OE package names?

2016-10-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 25 Oct 2016, Christopher Larson wrote: > On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 12:05 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> > wrote: > On Tue, 25 Oct 2016, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > >   i once wrote a wiki page on "bb", distinguishing between queri

Re: [OE-core] most efficient way to map perl RH rpms to OE package names?

2016-10-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
cally don't work with perl modules, so if i sound clueless about perl packaging, that's because i am. -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter:

[OE-core] is there a way for "rpm -ql" (v5) to *not* print intervening dirs?

2016-10-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
en package. is there an option to not have it do that, to behave like rpm4 did? thanks. more perl packaging questions coming shortly ... rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontar

Re: [OE-core] most efficient way to map perl RH rpms to OE package names?

2016-10-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
reading correctly that those should represent the same thing, and that (theoretically) i could include either equivalently? ok, back to work ... rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario

Re: [OE-core] most efficient way to map perl RH rpms to OE package names?

2016-10-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
: perl-module-io-compress-base-common perl-module-io-compress-base represent the base class? i'm just trying to figure out the standard OE packaging for perl modules. rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day

[OE-core] [PATCH] oe-pkgdata-util: Use standard verb form in help info.

2016-10-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
"Shows" -> "Show", to be consistent with standard form of help output. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> --- yes, i am that pedantic. diff --git a/scripts/oe-pkgdata-util b/scripts/oe-pkgdata-util index bb917b4..dbffd6a 100755 --- a/

Re: [OE-core] most efficient way to map perl RH rpms to OE package names?

2016-10-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 25 Oct 2016, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Mon, 24 Oct 2016, Christopher Larson wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 1:53 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> > > wrote: > >   i've just been handed a list of about 200 perl packages

Re: [OE-core] most efficient way to map perl RH rpms to OE package names?

2016-10-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 24 Oct 2016, Christopher Larson wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 1:53 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> > wrote: >   i've just been handed a list of about 200 perl packages by their > centos rpm names, and i want to map most

Re: [OE-core] most efficient way to map perl RH rpms to OE package names?

2016-10-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 24 Oct 2016, Christopher Larson wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 1:53 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> > wrote: >   i've just been handed a list of about 200 perl packages by their > centos rpm names, and i want to map most

[OE-core] most efficient way to map perl RH rpms to OE package names?

2016-10-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
-time-hires, which i assume is part of the dynamic naming being done in perl_5.22.1.bb. am i approaching this the right way? rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA

Re: [OE-core] basic bitbake commands to create an SDK?

2016-10-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
ng that if i have the time and space to build an eSDK, there is no downside compared to building a standard SDK? as in, i don't lose anything from the standard SDK, i just get a richer feature set, etc. rday -- ======== Robe

[OE-core] clarifying issues building two SDKs, based on different target images

2016-10-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
arger than the one for minimal). what happens if i try to install those two SDKs in the same directory (/opt/poky.2.2/)? would that even work? and now, off to read more manual ... rday -- ======== Robert

[OE-core] "run-postinsts" added twice to PACKAGE_INSTALL

2016-10-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
GMANAGE_BOOTSTRAP}",d)} ROOTFS_BOOTSTRAP_INSTALL="run-postinsts" so it's being added both as part of IMAGE_INSTALL and as part of ROOTFS_BOOTSTRAP_INSTALL. someone else is free to decide whether that's worth caring about. rday -- ===

Re: [OE-core] basic bitbake commands to create an SDK?

2016-10-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
other? rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn:

[OE-core] [PATCH] testsdk.bbclass: Clean up comments, clarify image choices.

2016-10-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Make it clear that SDK testing can use any valid image. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> --- diff --git a/meta/classes/testsdk.bbclass b/meta/classes/testsdk.bbclass index 77c9203..43342b1 100644 --- a/meta/classes/testsdk.bbclass +++ b/meta/classes/testsdk.b

Re: [OE-core] basic bitbake commands to create an SDK?

2016-10-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 22 Oct 2016, Khem Raj wrote: > > > On Oct 22, 2016, at 9:53 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> wrote: > > > > On Sat, 22 Oct 2016, Khem Raj wrote: > > > >> generally meta-toolchain is prior art. You want to use image > >> spe

Re: [OE-core] basic bitbake commands to create an SDK?

2016-10-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
s seem to suggest. rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://c

[OE-core] basic bitbake commands to create an SDK?

2016-10-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
t, respectively, the TOOLCHAIN_HOST_TASK and TOOLCHAIN_TARGET_TASK values? anyway, as long as i'm starting with the right info, pretty sure i can take it from there, accompanied by the SDK manual: http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/2.2/sdk-manual/sdk-manual.html rday -- ========

Re: [OE-core] in what recipe context can "bb" show me TOOLCHAIN_HOST_TASK?

2016-10-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 22 Oct 2016, Ulf Magnusson wrote: > Hello, > > On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 9:39 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> > wrote: > > > > a question about chris larson's nifty "bb" utility ... i recently > > figured out that,

[OE-core] in what recipe context can "bb" show me TOOLCHAIN_HOST_TASK?

2016-10-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
get the full value of the variable when the SDK is being built? rday p.s. same question if i was using "bitbake -e". -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA

Re: [OE-core] how do i get "nativesdk-rpm-build-5.4.16-r0.x86_64_nativesdk.rpm" into the SDK?

2016-10-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 20 Oct 2016, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > ok, this one should be simple ... i ran: > > $ bitbake -c populate_sdk core-image-minimal > > then popped into tmp/deploy/rpm/x86_64_nativesdk to see the rpms > of interest to me: > > nativesdk-rpm-5.4.16-r0.x86_64_na

[OE-core] how do i get "nativesdk-rpm-build-5.4.16-r0.x86_64_nativesdk.rpm" into the SDK?

2016-10-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
is there a special setting to get the nativesdk-rpm-build into the SDK as well? or am i just misunderstanding what i'm reading? thanks. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA

Re: [OE-core] how can i ask to keep all the generated "nativesdk" rpms?

2016-10-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 20 Oct 2016, Richard Purdie wrote: > On Thu, 2016-10-20 at 06:31 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >   just for fun, i'm going to do a fresh build right now, involving: > > > > * fresh "git pull" of poky > > * MACHINE=mpc8315e-rdb > > * bitbake

Re: [OE-core] how can i ask to keep all the generated "nativesdk" rpms?

2016-10-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 19 Oct 2016, Richard Purdie wrote: > On Wed, 2016-10-19 at 17:34 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >   so, i'm home and on a different system about to do a build ... > > refresh my memory, where are all those nativesdk rpms supposed to > > show up? if memory serves, th

[OE-core] any plans to upgrade to rpm-5.4.17?

2016-10-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
an ETA for just moving to 5.4.17? rday -- ============ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/

[OE-core] how to add "uninative binary shim" to local source mirror?

2016-10-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
other "special cases" like this i should be aware of? rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter:

Re: [OE-core] how can i ask to keep all the generated "nativesdk" rpms?

2016-10-19 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 19 Oct 2016, Richard Purdie wrote: > On Wed, 2016-10-19 at 17:34 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >   so, i'm home and on a different system about to do a build ... > > refresh my memory, where are all those nativesdk rpms supposed to > > show > > up? if memory

Re: [OE-core] how can i ask to keep all the generated "nativesdk" rpms?

2016-10-19 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 20 Oct 2016, Paul Eggleton wrote: > On Wed, 19 Oct 2016 15:42:27 Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Thu, 20 Oct 2016, Paul Eggleton wrote: > > > On Wed, 19 Oct 2016 15:32:25 Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > On Thu, 20 Oct 2016, Paul Eggleton wrote: > > >

Re: [OE-core] how can i ask to keep all the generated "nativesdk" rpms?

2016-10-19 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 20 Oct 2016, Paul Eggleton wrote: > On Wed, 19 Oct 2016 15:32:25 Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Thu, 20 Oct 2016, Paul Eggleton wrote: > > > On Wed, 19 Oct 2016 11:27:05 Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > On Wed, 19 Oct 2016, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >

Re: [OE-core] how can i ask to keep all the generated "nativesdk" rpms?

2016-10-19 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 20 Oct 2016, Paul Eggleton wrote: > On Wed, 19 Oct 2016 11:27:05 Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Wed, 19 Oct 2016, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > not sure how dumb a question this is, but as i was doing a basic OE > > > > > > build, i saw the growing

Re: [OE-core] how can i ask to keep all the generated "nativesdk" rpms?

2016-10-19 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 19 Oct 2016, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > not sure how dumb a question this is, but as i was doing a basic OE > build, i saw the growing number of "nativesdk" rpms piling up under > tmp/deploy/rpm/x86_64_linux, and wanted to examine a couple of them > later, but

[OE-core] how can i ask to keep all the generated "nativesdk" rpms?

2016-10-19 Thread Robert P. J. Day
hat entire directory was deleted. is there a switch to preserve that directory? thanks. rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.c

Re: [OE-core] SERIAL_CONSOLE versus SERIAL_CONSOLES?

2016-10-17 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 17 Oct 2016, Phil Blundell wrote: > On Mon, 2016-10-17 at 07:57 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > >   so is it a fair statement that, pedantically, i might as well just > > define everything in terms of SERIAL_CONSOLES and think that way? > > > >

[OE-core] SERIAL_CONSOLE versus SERIAL_CONSOLES?

2016-10-17 Thread Robert P. J. Day
efine everything in terms of SERIAL_CONSOLES and think that way? rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter:

Re: [OE-core] how can i add u-boot-fw-utils to my build without u-boot being part of the build?

2016-08-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 22 Aug 2016, Javier Viguera wrote: > Hi Robert, > > On 21/08/16 17:51, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > i apologize for being clueless, but i'm still unclear on what i need > > to do here, and in my case, i'm going in the opposite direction. > >

Re: [OE-core] why does BBFILE_COLLECTIONS get assigned with "+="?

2016-08-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 25 Aug 2016, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > not sure why i never noticed this before, but why do layers *append* > to BBFILE_COLLECTIONS rather than just assigning the layer name with a > simple assignment? is this just to allow alternate names for the same > layer

[OE-core] why does BBFILE_COLLECTIONS get assigned with "+="?

2016-08-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
example where this is being used? rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http

Re: [OE-core] how can i add u-boot-fw-utils to my build without u-boot being part of the build?

2016-08-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 22 Aug 2016, Javier Viguera wrote: > Hi Robert, > > On 21/08/16 17:51, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > i apologize for being clueless, but i'm still unclear on what i > > need to do here, and in my case, i'm going in the opposite > > direction. >

Re: [OE-core] how can i add u-boot-fw-utils to my build without u-boot being part of the build?

2016-08-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 21 Aug 2016, Tom Rini wrote: > On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 09:59:22AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Fri, 19 Aug 2016, Tom Rini wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 12:41:25PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > > > > > i want

Re: [OE-core] how can i add u-boot-fw-utils to my build without u-boot being part of the build?

2016-08-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 19 Aug 2016, Tom Rini wrote: > On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 12:41:25PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > i want to add the u-boot-fw-utils recipe to my current build, > > but u-boot is *not* part of the relevant BSP layer -- u-boot is > > being configured and

[OE-core] how can i add u-boot-fw-utils to my build without u-boot being part of the build?

2016-08-18 Thread Robert P. J. Day
do i specify that i want to add that recipe to my build, while saying, "don't worry about the default environment, you don't need it." can that be done? thanks. rday -- ======== Robert

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 4/4] gettext_0.16.1: whitespace changes to align with v0.19.8.1

2016-08-18 Thread Robert P. J. Day
sn't* have the appropriate spaces, but is getting away with it only because a string elsewhere is being generous and covering for it. and, yes, i *am* that pedantic. rday -- ============ Robert P. J. Day

Re: [OE-core] what means IMAGE_ROOTFS_EXTRA_SPACE_append += "+ 3000000"?

2016-08-18 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 18 Aug 2016, Burton, Ross wrote: > > On 17 August 2016 at 15:01, Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> wrote: > > recipes-extended/images/core-image-kernel-dev.bb:IMAGE_ROOTFS_EXTRA_SPACE_append > += "+ 300" > > > I'm guessing tha

[OE-core] [PATCH] core-image-kernel-dev.bb: Standardize use of _append and leading space.

2016-08-18 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> --- Tweak that line to use the same format as all other examples involving that variable, for consistency. diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/images/core-image-kernel-dev.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/images/core-image-kernel-dev.bb

Re: [OE-core] subtle weirdness when you combine "_append" with "+="?

2016-08-17 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 17 Aug 2016, Ulf Magnusson wrote: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 3:21 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> > wrote: > > On Tue, 16 Aug 2016, Khem Raj wrote: > > > > ... big snip ... > > > >> the _append/_prepend in conjunction with +=

[OE-core] [PATCH] unfs3: Simplify simultaneous usage of "_append" and "+="

2016-08-17 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> --- for pedantic consistency, i also removed the *trailing* space from the libtirpc line, since subsequent appends should be responsible for adding the necessary leading space. i wonder if that will break anything... diff --git

[OE-core] what means IMAGE_ROOTFS_EXTRA_SPACE_append += "+ 3000000"?

2016-08-17 Thread Robert P. J. Day
e manual says nothing about a possible "+": http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/latest/ref-manual/ref-manual.html#var-IMAGE_ROOTFS_EXTRA_SPACE rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ot

Re: [OE-core] subtle weirdness when you combine "_append" with "+="?

2016-08-17 Thread Robert P. J. Day
end" with "+=" or ".=". does that sound like a reasonable coding style? rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA ht

Re: [OE-core] subtle weirdness when you combine "_append" with "+="?

2016-08-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 16 Aug 2016, Ulf Magnusson wrote: > On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 4:02 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> > wrote: > > > > was about to submit a small number of patches to clean up redundancy > > when people combine "_append" with

[OE-core] subtle weirdness when you combine "_append" with "+="?

2016-08-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
ading space? that just makes my head hurt -- the possibility that "_append" is being used in a way that normally makes it fail, only to have "+=" step in and save the day. at which point "_append" saves processing that until the end of parsing? yeesh. thoughts? rd

[OE-core] what's with meta-yocto-bsp directory in openembedded-core?

2016-08-11 Thread Robert P. J. Day
ctory whose name normally implies a layer. rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpj

Re: [OE-core] what must i supply WRT UBOOT_CONFIG/UBOOT_MACHINE when u-boot isn't in BSP?

2016-08-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 5 Aug 2016, Khem Raj wrote: > On 16-08-05 17:11:34, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Fri, 5 Aug 2016, Khem Raj wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Aug 5, 2016, at 11:52 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> > > > > wrote: > > &

Re: [OE-core] what must i supply WRT UBOOT_CONFIG/UBOOT_MACHINE when u-boot isn't in BSP?

2016-08-05 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 5 Aug 2016, Khem Raj wrote: > > > On Aug 5, 2016, at 11:52 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> wrote: > > > > > > i'm in the situation where i want to add the u-boot-fw-utils package > > to my image, but the corresponding u-boot source fo

[OE-core] what must i supply WRT UBOOT_CONFIG/UBOOT_MACHINE when u-boot isn't in BSP?

2016-08-05 Thread Robert P. J. Day
need to supply to build that package? i've never been in the situation where u-boot wasn't part of the BSP. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http

Re: [OE-core] where is the safest place to put a single-shot "run and reboot" script?

2016-08-05 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 5 Aug 2016, Khem Raj wrote: > > > On 8/5/16 8:31 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Fri, 5 Aug 2016, Khem Raj wrote: > > > >> > >> > >> On 8/5/16 8:14 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >>> > >>> i have a systemd-based i

Re: [OE-core] where is the safest place to put a single-shot "run and reboot" script?

2016-08-05 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 5 Aug 2016, Khem Raj wrote: > > > On 8/5/16 8:14 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > i have a systemd-based image that, after coming up normally, i want > > to fire off a one-time script which, after completion, reboots. i've > > been told t

[OE-core] where is the safest place to put a single-shot "run and reboot" script?

2016-08-05 Thread Robert P. J. Day
-- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn

Re: [OE-core] "parted" vs "sfdisk"

2016-08-05 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 5 Aug 2016, Andrew Bradford wrote: > Hi Robert, > > On 08/05 06:19, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > your personal opinions, if you would -- i'm working on some scripts > > to do automated installs on a target board, currently based on > > parted, but

Re: [OE-core] "parted" vs "sfdisk"

2016-08-05 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 5 Aug 2016, Gary Thomas wrote: > On 2016-08-05 12:19, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > your personal opinions, if you would -- i'm working on some scripts > > to do automated installs on a target board, currently based on > > parted, but parted seems a bit

[OE-core] "parted" vs "sfdisk"

2016-08-05 Thread Robert P. J. Day
strong opinions either way of parted versus sfdisk? i realize that's not much to go on, just curious about personal preferences, and why. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA

Re: [OE-core] want to verify proper use of run-postinsts, if i may

2016-07-29 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 29 Jul 2016, Richard Purdie wrote: > On Fri, 2016-07-29 at 07:54 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Fri, 29 Jul 2016, Richard Purdie wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 2016-07-29 at 07:43 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > On Fri, 29 Jul 2016, Robert P. J.

Re: [OE-core] want to verify proper use of run-postinsts, if i may

2016-07-29 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 29 Jul 2016, Richard Purdie wrote: > On Fri, 2016-07-29 at 07:43 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Fri, 29 Jul 2016, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > ... snip ... > > > > > am i missing anything? i'm assuming i'd use a .bbappend recipe to &

Re: [OE-core] want to verify proper use of run-postinsts, if i may

2016-07-29 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 29 Jul 2016, Robert P. J. Day wrote: ... snip ... > am i missing anything? i'm assuming i'd use a .bbappend recipe to > add the script names to SRC_URI, then define "do_install_append()" > to manually copy them over, or is there a proper way to do that i'm > not

[OE-core] want to verify proper use of run-postinsts, if i may

2016-07-29 Thread Robert P. J. Day
ript names to SRC_URI, then define "do_install_append()" to manually copy them over, or is there a proper way to do that i'm not seeing? rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ott

Re: [OE-core] does "wic" allow one to actually format physical devices?

2016-07-29 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 29 Jul 2016, Ed Bartosh wrote: > On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 05:30:14PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > never used "wic" before, and i'm wondering if it has the ability > > to not create dd-able images so much as partition and format >

[OE-core] does "wic" allow one to actually format physical devices?

2016-07-28 Thread Robert P. J. Day
elf. rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjda

[OE-core] [PATCH] update-rc.d: Correct trivial typo in DESCRIPTION line.

2016-07-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
"utilities" -> "utility" Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> --- diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/update-rc.d/update-rc.d_0.7.bb b/meta/recipes-core/update-rc.d/update-rc.d_0.7.bb index c15cb78..3b965c5 100644 --- a/meta/recipes-core/update-rc.d/

Re: [OE-core] why is "run-postinsts" considered a "development" recipe?

2016-07-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 26 Jul 2016, Burton, Ross wrote: > > On 26 July 2016 at 15:19, Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> wrote: >   i'm good with that, and one more (potentially idiotic) question > about run-postinsts. i note in the OE recipe file that it inherits &g

Re: [OE-core] why is "run-postinsts" considered a "development" recipe?

2016-07-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 26 Jul 2016, Burton, Ross wrote: > > On 26 July 2016 at 15:03, Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> wrote: >   for the first time, i want to use run-postinsts to run some initial > system setup, so i'm assuming i need to add that

[OE-core] why is "run-postinsts" considered a "development" recipe?

2016-07-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
the reasoning there? thanks. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday

[OE-core] is there any reason *not* to use musl C lib for current builds?

2016-07-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
as the subject asks, are there any compelling reasons to not use musl as the C library of choice for OE/YP builds? just wondering about any potential downsides. rday -- Robert P. J. Day

Re: [OE-core] how to bbappend(?) to u-boot-fw-utils to add a custom /etc/fw_env.config??

2016-07-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
that is, pretty much, line for line what i came up with as well. as you suggest, it just seems ... sloppy. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA

[OE-core] how to bbappend(?) to u-boot-fw-utils to add a custom /etc/fw_env.config??

2016-07-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
i may be looking at this entirely incorrectly at the moment, but what is the preferred way to sneak in a custom, target-specific /etc/fw_env.config file when adding u-boot-fw-utils to one's image? if i examine u-boot-fw-utils_2016.03.bb, i can see that that package is based on (predictably)

[OE-core] [PATCH] run-postinsts: Correct comment misspelling, "rpm-posinsts".

2016-07-05 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> --- diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/run-postinsts/run-postinsts/run-postinsts b/meta/recipes-devtools/run-postinsts/run-postinsts/run-postinsts index 53a8e1d..04ba394 100755 --- a/meta/recipes-devtools/run-postinsts/run-postins

[OE-core] want to clarify relationship between UBOOT_MACHINE and UBOOT_CONFIG

2016-06-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
possibilities still have to map directly to u-boot config files. that's it, right? is there anything more subtle happening under the hood than that? thanks. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa

[OE-core] what's the proper recipe for building a qemux86 image with only initramfs?

2016-06-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
be looking at? thanks. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday

[OE-core] will a "core-image-minimal-initramfs" run entirely off the initramfs?

2016-06-19 Thread Robert P. J. Day
erify that i can download a single kernel with an embedded initramfs, which will run entirely out of RAM and with no need of a second rootfs. rday -- ============ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA

[OE-core] should INITRD_IMAGE be INITRD_IMAGE_VM?

2016-06-17 Thread Robert P. J. Day
cannot use image live, hddimg or iso.' % initrd_i) $ so ... should that first line be setting INITRD_IMAGE_VM rather than just INITRD_IMAGE? or am i misreading? rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa,

[OE-core] what image to use for my "installer" build?

2016-06-17 Thread Robert P. J. Day
image capable of booting a device with custom install scripts, adding a second rootfs, used for testing." that looks pretty dead-on for what i want. is that the best choice? rday -- ======== Robert

[OE-core] my plan for an OE-based "installer" image

2016-06-17 Thread Robert P. J. Day
hould work, no? -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com

[OE-core] couple trivial(?) questions regarding RPM revision/version numbers

2016-06-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
d move on? is there anything here i'm missing or misunderstanding? thanks. rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.

[OE-core] easiest way to patch some headers in gcc-5.2 source?

2016-06-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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Re: [OE-core] is there an actual defensible usage for combining "_append" and "+="?

2016-05-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 26 May 2016, Khem Raj wrote: > On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 11:56 AM, Robert P. J. Day > <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> wrote: > > > > i've grumbled about this before -- the *apparent* redundancy in > > combining the "_append" and "+=" constructs -

[OE-core] is there an actual defensible usage for combining "_append" and "+="?

2016-05-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
ppend" and, say, "=+". or some other operator. -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twi

[OE-core] what kernel header files does "populate-sdk" export to user space?

2016-05-18 Thread Robert P. J. Day
ything under include/uapi should be copied, or there's not much point to that kernel directory. better yet, where is the code/script/class that does that actual copying, so i can read it for myself? thanks muchly. rday -- =============

Re: [OE-core] should a SRC_URI referring to "rday.cfg" look for "rday.scc"?

2016-05-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 9 May 2016, Bruce Ashfield wrote: > On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 6:39 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> > wrote: > >   (aside: this is with wind river linux 8 and i dropped bruce a note > about it, but i really should keep this stuf

Re: [OE-core] should a SRC_URI referring to "rday.cfg" look for "rday.scc"?

2016-05-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 9 May 2016, Bruce Ashfield wrote: > > > On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 6:39 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> > wrote: > >   (aside: this is with wind river linux 8 and i dropped bruce a note > about it, but i really should keep thi

[OE-core] should a SRC_URI referring to "rday.cfg" look for "rday.scc"?

2016-05-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
rday.scc", then things work fine. is this expected behaviour? is there some reason that if SRC_URI includes, say "derf.cfg", the configuration will automatically look for and try to process "derf.scc"? or am i just doing something silly?

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