Re: Which repo for meta-altera ?

[Philip Balister <philip@balister.org>]

On 07/30/2015 01:02 PM, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 12:50 AM, Paul Eggleton
> <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>> (Adding Khem and Yves, the maintainers of the github repo, to CC)
>>
>> In the interests of keeping the layer index accurate, can we get some
>> clarification on which repo is the official BSP?
> 
> Please use github.com/kraj/meta-altera as mentioned in layerindex as
> well. This is the community supported BSP

What are the differences, shouldn't th ecommunity send in updates to the
vendor BSP?

Philip


> 
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Paul
>>
>> On Thursday 30 July 2015 06:52:22 Spriggs, Jim wrote:
>>> Hi Kevin,
>>>
>>> Rodger, got it this time – I had indeed missed the clue about the
>>> maintainers.
>>
>>> I should RTFM more often….
>>>
>>> Many thanks for your help and patience ☺.
>>> --
>>> jim
>>>
>>> Von: enak999@googlemail.com [mailto:enak999@googlemail.com]
>>> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 29. Juli 2015 22:37
>>> An: Dalon Westergreen <dwesterg@gmail.com>; Spriggs, Jim
>>> <J.Spriggs@raylase.de>; Alex J Lennon <ajlennon@dynamicdevices.co.uk>
>>  Cc:
>>> yocto@yoctoproject.org; rfi@lists.rocketboards.org
>>> Betreff: Re: [yocto] Which repo for meta-altera ?
>>>
>>> As you can read in the ReadMe.md Khem Raj and Yves Vandervennet are the
>>> official maintainers of
>>> github.com/altera-opensource/meta-altera<http://github.com/altera-opensourc
>>> e/meta-altera>
>>
>>> I really recommend to use
>>> github.com/altera-opensource/meta-altera<http://github.com/altera-opensourc
>>> e/meta-altera> instead of the fork from Khem Raj. But since you use the fork
>>> of one of the maintainers, it will probably be most of the time in synch
>>> with the altera-opensource repository.
>>
>>> Von: Dalon Westergreen<mailto:dwesterg@gmail.com>
>>> Gesendet: ‎Mittwoch‎, ‎29‎. ‎Juli‎ ‎2015 ‎21‎:‎54
>>> An: Spriggs, Jim<mailto:J.Spriggs@raylase.de>, Alex J
>>> Lennon<mailto:ajlennon@dynamicdevices.co.uk>, Kevin
>>> B.<mailto:enak999@googlemail.com>
>>  Cc:
>>> yocto@yoctoproject.org<mailto:yocto@yoctoproject.org>,
>>> rfi@lists.rocketboards.org<mailto:rfi@lists.rocketboards.org>
>>> As far as I understand it Altera only maintains the one repo.
>>> On July 29, 2015 6:44:23 AM PDT, "Spriggs, Jim"
>>> <J.Spriggs@raylase.de<mailto:J.Spriggs@raylase.de>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Alex, Dalon, Kevin, Lists
>>>
>>> hmmm, so I guess I'm still confused (sorry).
>>>
>>> Alex recommends going via the "official" oe layers index, which currently
>>> links directly to
>>> github.com/kraj/meta-altera<http://github.com/kraj/meta-altera>.
>>
>>> Kevin and Dalon hold out for
>>> github.com/altera-opensource/meta-altera<http://github.com/altera-opensourc
>>> e/meta-altera>, and Dalon specifically says "... and repos under any user
>>> name in github are forks".
>>
>>> So is there an official ;-) dichotomy between altera and oe?
>>>
>>> Thanks for listening...
>>> --
>>> jim
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>>> Von: Alex J Lennon [mailto:ajlennon@dynamicdevices.co.uk]
>>> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 29. Juli 2015 15:10
>>> An: Spriggs, Jim <J.Spriggs@raylase.de<mailto:J.Spriggs@raylase.de>>
>>> Cc: yocto@yoctoproject.org<mailto:yocto@yoctoproject.org>
>>> Betreff: Re: [yocto] Which repo for meta-altera ?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 28/07/2015 10:10, Spriggs, Jim
>>>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>  Hi Guys; confused noob here...
>>>
>>>  There appear to be (at least) two "official" repos for meta-altera:
>>>
>>>          github.com/kraj/meta-altera<http://github.com/kraj/meta-altera>
>>>
>>>  and
>>>
>>>
>>> git.rocketboards.org/meta-altera.git<http://git.rocketboards.org/meta-alter
>>> a.git>
>>
>>>
>>>  So how should I choose between them?
>>>
>>>  Thanks!
>>>  --
>>>  Jim
>>>
>>>  Sorry about the company sig.: I can't switch it off.
>>>
>>>
>>> fwiw I would usually start with the official index
>>>
>>> http://layers.openembedded.org/layerindex/branch/master/layers/
>>>
>>> This seems to point to github
>>>
>>> Cheers, Alex
>>>
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