From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [64.233.182.188] (helo=nf-out-0910.google.com) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HBczJ-0003Vs-Ac for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 21:20:26 +0100 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id l24so1977993nfc for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:20:24 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.49.27.11 with SMTP id e11mr7971589nfj.1170102024108; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:20:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from CUBE ( [82.193.96.236]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id l21sm23623025nfc.2007.01.29.12.20.23; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:20:23 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 22:20:27 +0200 From: Paul Sokolovsky X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1618752295.20070129222027@gmail.com> To: "Nelson Castillo" In-Reply-To: <2accc2ff0701290940nbdceb0dkf25db7ea19826895@mail.gmail.com> References: <2accc2ff0701290940nbdceb0dkf25db7ea19826895@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: Stefano Parusso , openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org Subject: Re: Stable versions of OE X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 20:20:26 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello Nelson, Monday, January 29, 2007, 7:40:11 PM, you wrote: > Hi. > I've been following this document > (http://wiki.emqbit.com//openembedded) > by Stefano Parusso that explains how to build OE for a ARM board[1]. > It works for the snapshot for November the 7th and not for the most recent > one. I read in the Getting Started wiki page[3]: > Once you have a "known good" version that works well on your > system, keep it! To update, clone a new copy; don't overwrite > that working version until it's known to be safe. > So, I guess it means I should stay with the old metadata. > My questions are: > * Does OE ever do "stable" releases? OE is a kind of "meta-distribution". To the large part, it leaves definition of what is stable to specific distributions which are based on it. > * If not, how do you make "stable" releases for yur plataforms? By creating branches for specific distributions. For example, there's a branch for OpenZaurus. As OE uses distributed SCM, you more or less easily can create and maintain your own private branch, merge to it from .dev only what you consider stable for you. Even without creating branch, you can get reasonable level of stability by pinpointing versions of packages you like to use (in this case you however at least depend on those versions not being removed, and old stuff is regularly cleaned up from .dev) > Regards, > Nelson.- -- Best regards, Paul mailto:pmiscml@gmail.com