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 1NWYdQ-0001m6-3X for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:09:59 +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 1NWYbH-0000Ue-Rf for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 12:07:43 -0500 Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 12:06:59 -0500 (EST) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org In-Reply-To: <20100117165403.GP30938@jama> Message-ID: References: <20100117165403.GP30938@jama> 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: beagleboard-demo-image, and the evil that is "gnome-games" 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: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:09:59 -0000 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Sun, 17 Jan 2010, Martin Jansa wrote: > On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 11:47:06AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > it seems counter-productive to allow a single games package to put > > the brakes on an entire build. > > Maybe you want to build with -k? > > If there is some build problem in games package, then it should be > fixed, not silenced by whole task removal. i've reported the breakage related to gnome-games before: http://www.mail-archive.com/openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org/msg02124.html note in that posting that philip balister appears to confirm the problem, and there's a reference to someone else who is working with an update that might solve the problem. that was a *month* ago, and things are still broken. if there's a fix, then it should be applied. if there isn't, then the reference to gnome-games should be removed. allowing a single broken package that's been broken for over a month to be the single obstacle to a successful build would seem to be entirely counter-productive. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ========================================================================