Yocto project quickstart information

Yocto project quickstart information

[Barros Pena, Belen]

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Hi there,

I was in the process of installing Yocto from the master branch in an Ubuntu 11.10 VM, and I used the Yocto Project Quick Start information (http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/yocto-project-qs/yocto-project-qs.html) to make sure I had all the required packages. However, I got a couple errors while trying to install those packages:

  *   The information lists git-core as one of the required packages, but I got an error saying the package could not be found. The package needed seems to be called git now.
  *   I got an error saying the package cvs could not be found. Paul Eggleton told me that package should no longer be necessary. He also observed desktop-file-utils and mercurial, both listed as required packages, should no longer be necessary either
  *   Finally, I forgot to install texinfo, and the error I got in the command line said that I was missing makeinfo (see screenshot attached). But when trying to install makeinfo I again got the "package could not be found" error. If the error had said I needed to install texinfo it would have made my life a bit easier.

Should we review the required packages details for the other distros to make sure they are up to date?

Cheers

Belen

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Re: Yocto project quickstart information

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 29 Mar 2012, Barros Pena, Belen wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I was in the process of installing Yocto from the master branch in
> an Ubuntu 11.10 VM, and I used the Yocto Project Quick Start
> information
> (http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/yocto-project-qs/yocto-project-qs.html)
> to make sure I had all the required packages. However, I got a
> couple errors while trying to install those packages:
>
>   * The information lists git-core as one of the required packages,
> but I got an error saying the package could not be found. The
> package needed seems to be called git now.

  git-core should still work, but it's a transitional dummy name and
the new base package is indeed just git.

rday

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Re: Yocto project quickstart information

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 29 Mar 2012, Barros Pena, Belen wrote:

>   * Finally, I forgot to install texinfo, and the error I got in the
> command line said that I was missing makeinfo (see screenshot
> attached). But when trying to install makeinfo I again got the
> "package could not be found" error. If the error had said I needed
> to install texinfo it would have made my life a bit easier.

  the problem is that, across distros, the same command might come as
part of a different package, so sometimes it's very hard to tell which
package you should advise installing.

  on that note, however, would it be that hard to define a ubuntu meta
or virtual package to install everything needed for yocto?  just to
avoid this sort of problem?

rday

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Re: Yocto project quickstart information

[Bob Cochran]

On 03/29/2012 11:04 AM, Barros Pena, Belen wrote:
> Should we review the required packages details for the other distros to make sure they are up to date?

It might be worthwhile to also point out that additional packages are 
required to build the documentation.  It might be "nice" to document the 
list and keep it up to date (note, I believe the yocto project docs and 
bitbake doc require a different package set).

Also, these package lists would probably be better suited on the wiki 
where we all could mod it on the fly.

Re: Yocto project quickstart information

[Rifenbark, Scott M]

If any review of the package requirements as listed in the QS occurs, please review them from http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/latest/yocto-project-qs/yocto-project-qs.html#packages. This represents the latest QS version being prepared for 1.2 release. 

Thanks,
Scott

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Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 11:11 AM
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Subject: Re: [yocto] Yocto project quickstart information

On 03/29/2012 11:04 AM, Barros Pena, Belen wrote:
> Should we review the required packages details for the other distros to make sure they are up to date?

It might be worthwhile to also point out that additional packages are 
required to build the documentation.  It might be "nice" to document the 
list and keep it up to date (note, I believe the yocto project docs and 
bitbake doc require a different package set).

Also, these package lists would probably be better suited on the wiki 
where we all could mod it on the fly.






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