remove cdrtools ?

remove cdrtools ?

[Frans Meulenbroeks]

While browsing through our recipes I found this:
cdrtools/cdrtools-native_2.01.01_alpha77.bb

This was added in 2006 by Raymond Danks, I did some cleaning 1.5 year
ago, Holger moved it to the latest version last march.

When I wanted to attack this device to remove legacy staging, I
suddenly asked myself: why do we have this recipe in the first place?

Facts:
There is no target recipe for it
no one pins it
no recipe depends on it

I can imagine having a cd recording app could be useful, but do we
within oe really want to support and maintain recording apps?
I guess any decent dev system has cdrtools and at least 5 other
recording apps, so I consider this recipe to be out of scope for OE.

My proposal: remove this recipe

Can I have an ack for this (or if you feel this should be kept can you
please explain why this would be useful to keep and would you then
please also convert the recipe from legacy staging (and probably move
to 3.0)?

Frans.

Re: remove cdrtools ?

[Tom Rini]

Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
> While browsing through our recipes I found this:
> cdrtools/cdrtools-native_2.01.01_alpha77.bb
> 
> This was added in 2006 by Raymond Danks, I did some cleaning 1.5 year
> ago, Holger moved it to the latest version last march.
> 
> When I wanted to attack this device to remove legacy staging, I
> suddenly asked myself: why do we have this recipe in the first place?

It's needed for making ISO images of which I thought we used to support 
(boot CDs for x86 boards for example).

-- 
Tom Rini
Mentor Graphics Corporation

Re: remove cdrtools ?

[Tom Rini]

Tom Rini wrote:
> Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
>> While browsing through our recipes I found this:
>> cdrtools/cdrtools-native_2.01.01_alpha77.bb
>>
>> This was added in 2006 by Raymond Danks, I did some cleaning 1.5 year
>> ago, Holger moved it to the latest version last march.
>>
>> When I wanted to attack this device to remove legacy staging, I
>> suddenly asked myself: why do we have this recipe in the first place?
> 
> It's needed for making ISO images of which I thought we used to support 
> (boot CDs for x86 boards for example).

See bootimg.bbclass

-- 
Tom Rini
Mentor Graphics Corporation

Re: remove cdrtools ?

[Frans Meulenbroeks]

2010/8/26 Tom Rini <tom_rini@mentor.com>:
> Tom Rini wrote:
>>
>> Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
>>>
>>> While browsing through our recipes I found this:
>>> cdrtools/cdrtools-native_2.01.01_alpha77.bb
>>>
>>> This was added in 2006 by Raymond Danks, I did some cleaning 1.5 year
>>> ago, Holger moved it to the latest version last march.
>>>
>>> When I wanted to attack this device to remove legacy staging, I
>>> suddenly asked myself: why do we have this recipe in the first place?
>>
>> It's needed for making ISO images of which I thought we used to support
>> (boot CDs for x86 boards for example).
>
> See bootimg.bbclass

Ah, ok, didn't know that.
Actually it seems that bootimg.bbclass is not used, and a quick search
didn't show up a way to use it, but its existence is good enough to
keep cdrtools.
I'll see if I can update it.

Frans