From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from astoria.ccjclearline.com ([64.235.106.9]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1N9zEc-0006TE-7j for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:55:05 +0100 Received: from cpe002129687b04-cm001225dbafb6.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com ([99.235.241.187] helo=crashcourse.ca) by astoria.ccjclearline.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1N9zDI-00053e-NA for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:53:40 -0500 Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:53:39 -0500 (EST) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org In-Reply-To: <1258365971.25369.528.camel@lenovo.internal.reciva.com> Message-ID: References: <200911160100.38336.marcin@juszkiewicz.com.pl> <1258365971.25369.528.camel@lenovo.internal.reciva.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - astoria.ccjclearline.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.openembedded.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - crashcourse.ca X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 64.235.106.9 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: rpjday@crashcourse.ca X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:20:07 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on linuxtogo.org); Unknown failure Subject: Re: any ETA on a working dev beagleboard demo image? X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:55:05 -0000 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Mon, 16 Nov 2009, Phil Blundell wrote: > On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 04:05 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > IMHO, the fact that you don't know anyone who uses a fedora > > build host is not a compelling reason to ignore build breakage > > that happens on a fedora build host. > > That's true, but not having access to a host where the problem > occurs does make it much harder to do anything about it. which is why i'm more than happy to do that testing on my f12 beta system, then report back with the relevant results. and, AFAICT, those reports have resulted in a couple subtle build issues being fixed, at least for certain distros. i apologize for making such a big deal out of this, i didn't intend to incite such a sh*tstrom, but here's the thing. i've been told that OE is most emphatically a "community" project. of course it is -- i understand that. and i, as a long-time fedora user, am trying to *contribute* to that community. which is why i'm willing to check out the dev branch, and keep it up to date, and burn off cycles trying to build it on a regular basis, and report on build breakage and even try to research that breakage to figure out what the problem might be and how to fix it. i only wish i had the OE background to be able to debug and submit patches for that breakage -- don't have it yet, but i'm working on it. until then, i have to depend on the good graces of other OE folks to help out. but simply saying that, "hey, it builds on *my* distro, you should use that distro" disqualifies a fairly huge part of a potential community -- those folks that use fedora. and i'm willing to test as well, but i can't do that until i can build -- it's as simple as that. so, for now, the best i can do is just keep running the stable version of angstrom on my beagleboard, but keep pulling and trying to build until i get a working build which i can use as a benchmark for future builds. i just need to get there first. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ========================================================================