Re: Moving angstrom under the yocto banner

[Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>]

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On 04/03/2012 09:40 AM, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 09:32:27AM -0700, Darren Hart wrote:
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>> On 04/03/2012 09:25 AM, Martin Jansa wrote:
>>> On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 09:01:01AM -0700, Darren Hart wrote:
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>>>> testing results. Whether or not a pair of git clones and some
>>>> tinkering can result in the same thing as a poky repository
>>>> or not isn't relevant in my opinion. I believe that we need a
>>>> consistent mode of validating support for a Yocto Project X.Y
>>>> release. Now if that is accomplished by building with the
>>>> poky repository of the same vintage or by running some script
>>>> that pulls the right bits together independently.... I
>>>> honestly don't care, but I do think it should be consistent.
>>> 
>>> so teach setup script something like: poky.sh checkout X.Y
>>> (which checkouts whatever parts are needed for X.Y) poky.sh
>>> update X.Y (dtto)
>>> 
>>> Which creates the same structure like poky repository has, but
>>> by checkouting upstream repositories or using submodules or
>>> whatever.
>>> 
>>> That's what oebb.sh and SHR makefile does for master/shr HEADs,
>>> but can be extended do it for particular version too.
>> 
>> 
>> This is certainly doable, but it doesn't address the
>> stabilization buffer poky provides that I mentioned.
> 
> While I want to reply to your whole email, I want to ask now, is
> there really a stabilization buffer being provided?  I could see
> that being the case if we were talking about depending on something
> independent of this effort (gcc, eglibc, make) but we're talking
> about oe-core and bitbake.  The folks in charge of poky the repo
> are in charge of oe-core and bitbake.  There might be an
> unintentional lag between when Richard can push changes to poky the
> repo, but I don't think it's great (and hey, freeing up Richard's
> time for other stuff is probably a good thing :)).
> 

I believe there is. It's a small temporal buffer though. I'd be
interested in RP's thoughts here.

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Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
Yocto Project - Linux Kernel
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