From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.infrascan.de ([188.40.84.136] helo=infrascan.de) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PLad5-0002tv-DQ for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Thu, 25 Nov 2010 13:08:47 +0100 Received: from [192.168.0.20] (77-22-235-200-dynip.superkabel.de [77.22.235.200]) by email.infrascan.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 16E801B40D for ; Thu, 25 Nov 2010 13:08:51 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4CEE5186.7070907@sensortherm.de> Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 13:07:34 +0100 From: Klaus Schwarzkopf User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.15) Gecko/20101027 Thunderbird/3.0.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org References: <4CEC1E17.1030208@sensortherm.de> <20101124080705.GF3274@jama> In-Reply-To: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 188.40.84.136 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: schwarzkopf@sensortherm.de X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on discovery X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:20:07 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on linuxtogo.org) Subject: Re: I've downloaded oe X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 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: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 12:08:48 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Am 24.11.2010 10:18, schrieb Frans Meulenbroeks: > 2010/11/24 Martin Jansa: >> On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 08:52:41AM +0100, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote: >>> What about moving all recipes that do not fetch and also did not fetch >>> during Martins test from last march/april to a directory non-fetching >>> or so? >> >> But those recipes were only those where I wasn't able to find the source >> at all (even with google help and couple of popular premirrors). Any >> origin for source was fine for me, because I was only interested in >> checksum check. >> >>> Apparently these are non fetchable for a long time, with no one >>> apparently building them or having an interest to fix them. >> >> More likely those who were building those before are still building >> OK, because they had it in theirs downloads dir. (but the second part is >> right :/). >> >>> My proposal would be to do that before the release is made, thereby >>> improving the % of the recipes that build. >> >> We can improve it also by putting those missing upstream files to >> sources.openembedded.org and use it as premirror. But first we hav to >> find someone who still have it in downloads dir :/ (I don't). >> >> Removing recipes would need to remove those also from tasks/images and >> in the end release images could miss some important functionaly in worst >> case. > > I think most of the non fetching recipes would fall into one of these > categories: > - recipes that are very specific and are not part of a task or image > - recipes that are older versions and that are not used/build > > Wrt the remark on missing important functionality: > For a user with a clean slate, the functionality is already missing as > the task/image cannot be build from scratch. > > It might be a good idea to do a test trying to build all images for > one distro/machine and see what comes out. > Start with a clean system (empty downloads dir, empty TMPDIR, no > pstaged files etc). > Then bitbake all images. By doing it subsequently without cleaning > TMPDIR inbetween it'll become clear which images do build from scratch > and which don't. > > Is someone able/willing to do this test and report the result (suggest > using distro minimal or angstrom or probably shr and machine angstrom) > > Frans Is it usefull to have an image with all/most recipes? This image can be used for testing the recipes (fetch, compile) for several machines. At the moment, i try to build all images with the dm355-evm machine. Greetings Klaus