From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NWZbX-0006yR-Lv for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:12:06 +0100 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NWZZN-0001fL-7i for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:09:49 +0100 Received: from s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl ([85.145.118.37]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:09:49 +0100 Received: from k.kooi by s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:09:49 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org From: Koen Kooi Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:09:28 +0100 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100113 Shredder/3.0.2pre In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0 Sender: news X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 80.91.229.12 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: gcho-openembedded-devel@m.gmane.org 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 18:12:06 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 17-01-10 17:47, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > given that (on my fedora 12 system, anyway), the gnome-games package > has been unbuildable for weeks now, i finally threw in the towel, > removed the reference to it from the beagleboard task, and can now > build beagleboard-demo-image. > > that package was the final obstacle to getting a BB-demo-image > build. other packages that were failing -- e2fsprogs, mplayer -- > have recently been fixed, leaving gnome-games as the sole remaining > cause of build grief. > > a suggestion -- until the issue with gnome-games is resolved, why > not just remove its inclusion from the bb-demo-image task? i'm being > quite serious -- it's obviously not a critical package, and if it's > the only thing keeping people from building and testing the OE dev > branch for the beagleboard, take it out so folks can get back to > testing. > > it seems counter-productive to allow a single games package to put > the brakes on an entire build. And I have yet to reproduce a single build failure with that recipe, and I build beagleboard-demo-image daily. It seems counter-productive remove everything that might fail for a handfull of people. I remember busybox triggering an OOM on Philip's build machine not too long ago :) regards, Koen -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iD8DBQFLU1JYMkyGM64RGpERAn4XAJoCqmAwDzr1fBf0pGW60RXB+NN+OgCgu5bn FTEb3qMBUBqRwppKqhYm0TY= =B0Ix -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----