From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from orsmga101.jf.intel.com (mga06.intel.com [134.134.136.21]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D3C1E00346 for ; Wed, 8 Aug 2012 11:39:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-pb0-f52.google.com ([209.85.160.52]) by mga02.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/RC4-SHA; 08 Aug 2012 11:39:52 -0700 Received: by pbcxa7 with SMTP id xa7so1870233pbc.25 for ; Wed, 08 Aug 2012 11:39:52 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :x-gm-message-state; bh=uhAi6XtqOU/LlgWiUkVaeBmLUoYNYYI/k0Ovej1wxJM=; b=hCeuaTBN3aG0Q9pKgcLu1HPjVO7120nHNWlt+naQTS/azLNMb2fnJ+IRVo7T5THnSl HAh6cVfvIWm6uzQO4TgZlQggq6dVwYn++AVJZ5+AFq3teNAoVXJAEbu102mOVKN1zlbh 9uqAfaARFEI1ZWVIi/SDCDB2X1/XTHWPqgPnu4cYjf/VL/unvilk/QkfLz0WmTLm0M6k GOj+HBzrwwOnb2D7Nlc86k+AL1byz/tjZHiwwTGsH2W/tZeSdQotAuv9rJ8rJa/hD6AQ g7fhNKz3pj1kuFqld5cJ7m4MC5wHFkYvOWhDe6FM/5wZY2OvAAcNgZQdCRIK340GSNNv ex2w== Received: by 10.68.236.102 with SMTP id ut6mr38341046pbc.113.1344451192687; Wed, 08 Aug 2012 11:39:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.1.10.192] (c-50-137-42-92.hsd1.or.comcast.net. [50.137.42.92]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id vc5sm10440832pbc.2.2012.08.08.11.39.51 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 08 Aug 2012 11:39:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5022B276.7000104@intel.com> Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2012 11:39:50 -0700 From: Scott Garman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120714 Thunderbird/14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: yocto@yoctoproject.org References: <22F5AB9F-5063-4443-97B6-B88EA9DAE877@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <22F5AB9F-5063-4443-97B6-B88EA9DAE877@gmail.com> X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQm+1GD1IYd55Obc8FfNrG+dO2laaMi/k/wJM/skJlIEGX1K+6zoC3kQTHj4rSf8Pb9hjEQb Subject: Re: Maintenance on older branches, e.g. bernard 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: Wed, 08 Aug 2012 18:39:53 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 08/08/2012 11:20 AM, Elvis Dowson wrote: > Hi, I just noticed that if one were to try switching to an older poky > branch, say bernard, there are a few errors: > > e.g. meta-yocto layer doesn't have a conf folder. > > Also if you use one of the tags, e.g. bernard-5.0, bernard-5.0.1, > bernard-5.0.2, you can run into build failures. > > I think at the very least, one should be able to build successfully > off one of the older branches, and perhaps it should be part of the > regular regression tests? When you say "build successfully", how do you define that? Building core-image-minimal? -sato? -lsb? For which machines? On how many host distros? We have a problem of scale here which is why bernard (now three stable releases old) is no longer undergoing active maintenance or regression testing by the core team. This is where the community or a partner organization with a financial interest in supporting that release for their customers needs to step in. As time goes on, we're seeing more commercial adoption our releases and I think we'll see more of this for the recent releases (edison and denzil in particular, but bernard came out when the Yocto Project was still fairly new). IMO, Scott -- Scott Garman Embedded Linux Engineer - Yocto Project Intel Open Source Technology Center