From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [84.16.208.26] (helo=banan.dataparty-mn.biz) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1GKEOm-0003qE-WF for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Mon, 04 Sep 2006 15:22:01 +0200 Received: from [10.0.0.6] (104.84-48-48.nextgentel.com [84.48.48.104]) by banan.dataparty-mn.biz (Postfix) with ESMTP id E313413C1C3 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2006 15:19:21 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <44FC280C.9070908@nslu2-linux.org> Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 15:20:12 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=D8yvind_Repvik?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org Subject: [Fwd: Re: bitbake freeze] X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.8 Precedence: list Reply-To: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Linux Distributions List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Linux Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 13:22:01 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: > Am Montag, den 04.09.2006, 00:28 -0700 schrieb Justin Patrin: >> I just remembered the old "freeze" command that John Bowler wrote a >> while ago and tried to use it. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work >> with the current OE. >=20 > [...] >=20 >> I realize the shell isn't really the right place for this and that >> this might be nicer in a bb file somewhere but this is how I could get >> it working. >=20 > The shell is _exactly_ the right place for it -- since the command line > parsing > went so fast, we need to come up with new use cases ;) >=20 >> Let me know what you think and any suggestions for making the code bet= ter. >=20 > I'm not familiar with the old freeze command (or I forgot it...), can > you summarize > what you want to achieve? >=20 The old freeze command looked at what had been built, and made a config file with a BBFILES variable that specified each specific .bb-file used (eg. samba_3.0.20.bb, glibc_2.3.3+cvs20050420.bb, etc.). The effect was more or less "freezing" the the build, making a release easier. Regards, =D8yvind Repvik