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 1OekuA-00073k-4S for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:25:22 +0200 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oektr-0003mJ-99 for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:25:03 +0200 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 ; Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:25:03 +0200 Received: from k.kooi by s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:25:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org From: Koen Kooi Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:23:16 +0200 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.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:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100718 Shredder/3.0.7pre In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 80.91.229.12 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: gcho-openembedded-devel@m.gmane.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on discovery X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS, SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:20:07 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on linuxtogo.org) Subject: Re: feasibility of "excluding" packages from a task? 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: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:25:22 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 29-07-10 14:23, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > not wanting to jump into the main debate, but what is the > feasibility of somehow "excluding" a package or two from a task you're > trying to build? as i'm sure you're tired of hearing, most of the > time when i try to build a task, it's typically one or two packages > that don't build that cause the whole thing to fail. > > so would it be hard to add an "exclude" option to bitbake that would > allow one to, say: > > $ bitbake -x gnash beagleboard-demo-image > > there would clearly have to be some dependency processing which might > require yet other packages to be excluded, etc, etc. > > and if one had already attempted the initial build, the exclude > specifier would require bitbake to go back and remove any trace of the > broken package so it didn't try to still get dragged in when trying to > build the final task image. or something like that. > > has this ever been proposed? would it be hard? it would certainly > be a temporary solution to lots of failed builds. Yes, making builds non-deterministic is an excellent idea! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iD8DBQFMUov0MkyGM64RGpERAvneAJ9SNhrX4r6mNFSiwEdqvWGs4RC+yQCfW1HC 02033OcVHj/OKGxn99n01IU= =62Jo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----