Re: kernel-tools failure for linux-yoctort_3.0.bb for poky/edison branch.

[Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@windriver.com>]

On 12-01-12 03:52 PM, Darren Hart wrote:
> On 01/12/2012 12:39 PM, Tom Zanussi wrote:
>> On Fri, 2011-12-16 at 19:03 -0800, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
>>> On 11-12-16 8:34 PM, Darren Hart wrote:
>>>> On 12/16/2011 05:22 PM, Bodke, Kishore K wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> With the attached Darren's kern-tools-native_git.bb file, build was success.
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> Kishore.
>>>>
>>>> See the patch I just sent:kern-tools: Include do_install() in bbappend
>>>> for what I believe to be the solution.
>>>>
>>>> I suppose the proper solution would be to version the kern-tools-native
>>>> recipe when major things like that change, but given the nature of this
>>>> layer, I think the above patch is adequate.
>>>
>>> That's not the solution to either problem (well, yes, it's a solution
>>> and there's nothing inherently wrong with it, it's just covering up
>>> the underlying issue) which is a layer dependency issue. In this case,
>>> meta-kernel-dev tracks the master branch of poky, not any other branch
>>> or version. And that is implicit, not explicit, hence why it got into
>>> this tangle.
>>>
>>> We could simply branch meta-kernel-dev and have an edison branch for
>>> it, not modify the appends to contain something that will just break
>>> again in the future.
>>>
>>> But meta-kernel-dev isn't officially used by much at the moment, so
>>> I'm not convinced that branching it is worth the trouble (but I can
>>> be convinced otherwise). I'd rather either just remove the kern-tools
>>> bbappend (I'm probably the only one on the planet that really needs
>>> it), or just trust people to know what they are up to with the
>>> meta-kernel-dev layer.
>>>
>>
>> Revisiting this - meta-kernel-dev is used in the documentation, and
>> Scott has now run up against this when testing and updating it.  Since
>> the documentation does use edison, and the walk-throughs have the user
>> check out edison branches of both poky and the BSP layers, it would be
>> consistent to have the user also do the same for meta-kernel-dev.
>> Probably just an edison branch with the kern-tools bbappend removed
>> would work fine...
>>
>> Tom
>
> Works for me.

Seems ok. I can create a branch shortly, once I'm slightly out from
under my 3.2 tree creation rush.

Bruce

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