Would this be worth putting on the list of items wished for in the future?
It sounds like the problem is difficult, but not impossible.
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>From: Richard Purdie <[email protected]>
>To: Todd Cooper <[email protected]>
>Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>Sent: Thursday, August 4, 2011 10:59 AM
>Subject: Re: [yocto] prebuilt pacakages
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>On Thu, 2011-08-04 at 07:42 -0700, Todd Cooper wrote:
>> Is there any way to make Yocto try to get prebuilt packages from known
>> repositories rather than trying to rebuild the world?
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>The system supports a cache of prebuilt objects in the form of the
>sstate data to accelerate build times if nothing changes. It doesn't
>directly support using prebuilt packages directly though as its a much
>harder problem to solve than you first realise.
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>A an example, given a package feed, its very hard to work out library
>provision within that package feed or dependency naming.
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>Cheers,
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>Richard
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