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

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

[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 Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca --- the only reference left to pcmcia-cs is this acceptable historical reference: $ grep -r pcmcia-cs * meta/recipes-core/udev/udev/network.sh:# Code taken from pcmcia-cs:/etc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] 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] 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

[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] 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

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

2012-06-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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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

[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] 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] 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

[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] 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

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] 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] Suggested threads should be double the number of cores.

2012-04-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 3 Apr 2012, Saul Wold wrote: On 03/23/2012 02:37 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: Documentation suggests that the number of threads should actually be *double* the number of cores. A better clarification with be to mention threading since a quad-core with hyperthreading enabled

[OE-core] is there a plan to briefly document all of the oe-core classes?

2012-04-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
ccache.inc cmake.bbclass cml1.bbclass cross.bbclass cross-canadian.bbclass ... etc etc ... any plans to add explanations for those? rday -- Robert P. J. Day

[OE-core] so what's the deal with ..._append +=?

2012-04-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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Re: [OE-core] so what's the deal with ..._append +=?

2012-04-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 2 Apr 2012, Richard Purdie wrote: On Mon, 2012-04-02 at 07:37 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: pretty sure i mentioned this once before but this just looks weird: $ grep -r _append += * meta/recipes-support/gmp/gmp_5.0.4.bb:SRC_URI_append += file://use-includedir.patch \ meta

[OE-core] should all class files be inherited by *something*?

2012-04-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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Re: [OE-core] should all class files be inherited by *something*?

2012-04-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 2 Apr 2012, Chris Larson wrote: On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote:  poking around the meta/classes/*.bbclass files and one looked a bit odd -- scons.bbclass.  i was under the impression that class files were supposed represent a *general

[OE-core] delayed assignment and += and IMAGE_FEATURES

2012-03-31 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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[OE-core] is fakeroot still used as a variable flag?

2012-03-31 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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Re: [OE-core] is fakeroot still used as a variable flag?

2012-03-31 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 1 Apr 2012, Paul Eggleton wrote: On Saturday 31 March 2012 19:12:12 Robert P. J. Day wrote: the bitbake manual lists fakeroot as a possible variable flag, along with things like nostamp, noexec and so on. but i don't see fakeroot being used as a flag anywhere in the source tree

[OE-core] require/include a .bb file in the same directory?

2012-03-30 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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Re: [OE-core] argh ... _append versus += and IMAGE_INSTALL confusion

2012-03-30 Thread Robert P. J. Day
?= IMAGE_INSTALL ?= ${CORE_IMAGE_BASE_INSTALL} that is, stop messing with IMAGE_INSTALL and do your customization with CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL. isn't that what it was expressly designed for? rday -- Robert P. J. Day

[OE-core] why i'm being so annoyingly pedantic about nitpicky details

2012-03-30 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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Re: [OE-core] why i'm being so annoyingly pedantic about nitpicky details

2012-03-30 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012, Paul Eggleton wrote: On Friday 30 March 2012 06:31:39 Robert P. J. Day wrote: i realize many of my questions are and will be spectacularly nitpicky but the motivation here is that i and a buddy of mine from wind river are going to be submitting a proposal

Re: [OE-core] why i'm being so annoyingly pedantic about nitpicky details

2012-03-30 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012, Eric Bénard wrote: Le Fri, 30 Mar 2012 06:31:39 -0400 (EDT), Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca a écrit : in other words, there will be more pedantry, but the end result will be released as cc-by-sa, so consider it an investment. :-) I hope that openembedded

[OE-core] LCONF_VERSION versus LAYER_CONF_VERSION?

2012-03-30 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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[OE-core] wanting to clarify bitbake parsing of all .conf files

2012-03-30 Thread Robert P. J. Day
the first line of the task or recipe file that's the bitbake target, right? as i said, i'm pretty sure that's correct but i want to make absolutely sure before i ask followup questions. rday -- Robert P. J. Day

Re: [OE-core] require/include a .bb file in the same directory?

2012-03-30 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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[OE-core] why does bitbake -e check the license of a *non*-included recipe file?

2012-03-30 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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Re: [OE-core] why does bitbake -e check the license of a *non*-included recipe file?

2012-03-30 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012, Chris Larson wrote: On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: $ bitbake -e core-image-core Loading cache: 100% |##| ETA:  00:00:00 Loaded 1106 entries from

[OE-core] why use both IMAGE_FEATURES and EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES in a single .bb file?

2012-03-29 Thread Robert P. J. Day
-testapps debug-tweaks that just seems ... odd. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http

Re: [OE-core] why use both IMAGE_FEATURES and EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES in a single .bb file?

2012-03-29 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012, Martin Jansa wrote: On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 04:11:57AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: given the recent excitement over += and =+, i thought i'd point out again the occasional weirdness like this snippet from core-image-sato-sdk.bb: IMAGE_FEATURES += apps

[OE-core] comments and actual PACKAGE_CROUPs in core-image.bbclass don't match

2012-03-29 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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[OE-core] a bit more confusing commentary in core-image.bbclass

2012-03-29 Thread Robert P. J. Day
there, either. all in all, that's kind of a confusing file to RTFS. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter

[OE-core] argh ... _append versus += and IMAGE_INSTALL confusion

2012-03-29 Thread Robert P. J. Day
: require core-image-minimal.bb ... snip ... IMAGE_INSTALL += mtd-utils so what is best practise here? rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http

Re: [OE-core] argh ... _append versus += and IMAGE_INSTALL confusion

2012-03-29 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012, Eric Bénard wrote: Le Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:23:20 -0400 (EDT), Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca a écrit : so what is best practise here? for this one you have an answer on OE's wiki : http://www.openembedded.org/wiki/I_want_an_image_with_package_XYZ_installed

Re: [OE-core] argh ... _append versus += and IMAGE_INSTALL confusion

2012-03-29 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012, Chris Larson wrote: On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: On Thu, 29 Mar 2012, Eric Bénard wrote: Le Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:23:20 -0400 (EDT), Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca a écrit :   so what is best practise here

[OE-core] [PATCH] Remove redundant reference to task-self-hosted from self-hosted-image.bb

2012-03-29 Thread Robert P. J. Day
This recipe already includes task-self-hosted in the IMAGE_INSTALL line: IMAGE_INSTALL = task-core-boot task-core-apps-console task-core-ssh-openssh task-self-hosted so there's no apparent need to include it again further down. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca --- diff

Re: [OE-core] adding a single package to an image -- what's the proper way?

2012-03-28 Thread Robert P. J. Day
://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/OE-Core#Adding_a_single_package_to_a_build rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter

Re: [OE-core] adding a single package to an image -- what's the proper way?

2012-03-28 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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Re: [OE-core] adding a single package to an image -- what's the proper way?

2012-03-28 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012, Paul Eggleton wrote: On Wednesday 28 March 2012 07:06:21 Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Wed, 28 Mar 2012, Paul Eggleton wrote: On Wednesday 28 March 2012 12:51:46 Marko Katić wrote: I always use bitbake -c clean -c cleansstate package for that purpose. Firstly

Re: [OE-core] adding a single package to an image -- what's the proper way?

2012-03-28 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012, Paul Eggleton wrote: On Wednesday 28 March 2012 07:14:41 Robert P. J. Day wrote: even though i realize this technique is not encouraged for local.conf, as i mentioned, i just tested using it from scratch in a brand new build and it still didn't add that package to my

Re: [OE-core] adding a single package to an image -- what's the proper way?

2012-03-28 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012, Koen Kooi wrote: Op 27 mrt. 2012, om 05:20 heeft Robert P. J. Day het volgende geschreven: i'm currently poring over the OE docs (including the ones at the yocto site), and i'm trying to figure out how to simply add a package to an image through one's local.conf

[OE-core] adding a single package to an image -- what's the proper way?

2012-03-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
that straightforward. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn

Re: [OE-core] adding a single package to an image -- what's the proper way?

2012-03-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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[OE-core] first of several posts to clarify/document OE issues for beginners

2012-03-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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[OE-core] verifying all necessary OE-related software on your dev host

2012-03-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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Re: [OE-core] verifying all necessary OE-related software on your dev host

2012-03-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012, Paul Eggleton wrote: On Tuesday 27 March 2012 17:33:18 Robert P. J. Day wrote: the only thing a beginner might want to do is check that the dev host has all essential S/W for OE work. i know that's documented in the yocto QS guide here: http://www.yoctoproject.org

[OE-core] how to properly set up a local premirror?

2012-03-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
use svk? or perforce? or osc? i'm not sure svk is even maintained anymore. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter

Re: [OE-core] how much can bitbake tell me about my upcoming build?

2012-03-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
be any way to get the *amount* of source, i was just wondering about getting a list of the source that would need to be fetched, but i guess doing a fetchall/dryrun would tell me that. thanks. rday -- Robert P. J. Day

[OE-core] [PATCH] core-image-minimal-mtdutils.bb: Simple DESCRIPTION grammar fix.

2012-03-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca --- diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-minimal-mtdutils.bb b/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-minimal-mtdutils.bb index 7b7f700..df2fab1 100644 --- a/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-minimal-mtdutils.bb +++ b/meta

[OE-core] [PATCH] Various typoes fixed, all comments or output strings.

2012-03-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Typoes fixed: enviroment, editted, spliting, scheulder. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca --- diff --git a/meta/classes/icecc.bbclass b/meta/classes/icecc.bbclass index 4557073..ae74050 100644 --- a/meta/classes/icecc.bbclass +++ b/meta/classes/icecc.bbclass @@ -9,7 +9,7

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