From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga02.intel.com (mga02.intel.com [134.134.136.20]) by mx1.pokylinux.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D14A84C80A74 for ; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 16:57:07 -0600 (CST) Received: from orsmga001.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.18]) by orsmga101.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 19 Nov 2010 14:57:07 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.59,226,1288594800"; d="scan'208";a="679249211" Received: from doubt.jf.intel.com (HELO [10.7.199.159]) ([10.7.199.159]) by orsmga001.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 19 Nov 2010 14:57:07 -0800 Message-ID: <4CE700C4.3070403@linux.intel.com> Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 14:57:08 -0800 From: Darren Hart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joshua Lock References: <1290083764.2487.24.camel@scimitar> <1290170323.9343.8.camel@scimitar> In-Reply-To: <1290170323.9343.8.camel@scimitar> Cc: yocto@yoctoproject.org Subject: Re: Documenting Poky dependencies X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 22:57:08 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 11/19/2010 04:38 AM, Joshua Lock wrote: > 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. That makes sense, although keeping current Ubuntu and Fedora doesn't take much space and saves some large percentage (90%?) of our userbase from having to follow one-more-link to get the required steps. I'd also like to see the sanity checker do a better job at listing package names rather than command names in a format that can be copy and pasted into an aptitude or yum install command. If done right, this would basically eliminate the need for any explicit list in the documentation. -- Darren Hart Yocto Linux Kernel