Re: Cleanup / janitors

[Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>]

On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 10:08 +0100, Andrea Adami wrote:
> > Problem is to do that reliable.
> I would follow RP steps: starting in nov 2009
> http://git.pokylinux.org/cgit.cgi/poky/log/
> 
> >It is easy to remove the do_stage section from a recipe, and it is
> >easy to verify that it builds, but it is already becoming less trivial
> >to verify that everything that depends on it builds too, and it
> >becomes complicated if you want to verify that it actually works
> >(especially if you have no clue what the package does).
> That's the reason why I did not dare too
> 
> > The other thing that comes to mind is better describing the job. If it
> I'd define it "Monkey-picking from Poky" for the most recipes.
> 
> How dangerous could it be? I have no idea about eventual subtle diffs
> between Poky and OE.

The key thing is to make sure the starting recipes were the same. If
they are, the same change probably applies to OE as they are very
similar, I try and keep them roughly in sync in all important ways.

It would actually make sense to add some function which compares the
results of a staging changes, I don't know if anyone would feel up to
that?

Cheers,

Richard