Re: Documenting Poky dependencies

[Joshua Lock <joshua.lock@intel.com>]

On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 12:54 -0800, Stewart, David C wrote:
> Thanks for doing this! 
> 
> Some ScottR ARs below.
> 
> >From: yocto-bounces@yoctoproject.org [mailto:yocto-
> >bounces@yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Joshua Lock
> >Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 4:36 AM
> >
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I've been thinking about the issue of documenting Poky's dependencies in
> >the handbook.
> >At the moment the handbook includes a list of required packages and then
> >explicitly lists commands to install those packages on Ubuntu.
> >
> >What I'd like to propose is that we list the required dependencies in
> >the handbook and then link to a wiki page where we can list explicit
> >instructions for various distributions.
> >
> >This allows us to document the process for as many distributions as
> >possible without cluttering the handbook. An alternative would be to add
> >this to an appendix but I quite like the idea of people being able to
> >edit and add to this information without having to use git.
> >
> >To that end I've added a page to our public wiki showing the steps I had
> >to take to run Poky on Fedora and CentOS machines:
> >
> >https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Poky/GettingStarted/Dependencies
> 
> Good idea. Some suggestions:
> 
> 1. There seem to be no links to this page from the rest of the wiki.
> Should add one. Scott - can you please figure out the best place?

Yeah, I wanted to make sure everyone was OK with the idea before I made
it too visible.

> 
> 2. Can you add something specific to the version of Poky (or Yocto)
> which has been verified with these distros? For example, f13 and f14
> have instructions for Laverne; they might change for a future rev. What
> is the best way to show this?

Not sure on the best way to show this, but this was Poky master (so
Laverne-ish) that I've tested.

I will verify that the steps work equally well for vanilla Laverne.

Cheers,
Joshua
-- 
Joshua Lock
        Intel Open Source Technology Centre

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