Re: [PATCH] minimal: add weak assigned DISTRO_FEED_CONFIGS variable

[Koen Kooi <koen@dominion.thruhere.net>]

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On 03-06-11 18:22, Simon Busch wrote:
> On 03.06.2011 18:17, Koen Kooi wrote:
>> On 03-06-11 18:07, Simon Busch wrote:
>>> On 02.06.2011 16:48, Martin Jansa wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 04:44:27PM +0200, Simon Busch wrote:
>>>>> Some distros are based on the minimal distro but want to supply another feed configuration.
>>>>> As minimal uses DISTRO_EXTRA_RDEPENDS to pull distro-feed-configs into the builded image
>>>>> the new weak assigned variable DISTRO_FEED_CONFIGS makes it possible to specify another
>>>>> feed configuration.
>>>>
>>>> isn't
>>>> DISTRO_FEED_PREFIX
>>>> DISTRO_FEED_URI
>>>> in
>>>> recipes/meta/distro-feed-configs.bb
>>>> enought to modify default distro-feed-configs?
>>>>
>>>> and if not cannot we change distro-feed-configs.bb to allow such
>>>> modifications?
>>
>>> Maybe you are right and it is the better solution to stay with
>>> distro-feed-configs.bb as general solution. The details why I did an own
>>> feed configuration is I don't want all PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS as additional
>>> feed configs. Why should a image which is flashed to a armv4 device pull
>>> the feed configs for a armv7a?
>>
>>> When I have a armv7a device it only needs to get the armv7 +
>>> MACHINE_ARCH + all feed configs from the remote host for an update and
>>> nothing more.
>>
>>> The best solution to archive this is as far as I see to make
>>> distro-feed-configs machine specific and don't add PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS
>>> as feed configuration anymore. For poky-feed-config-opkg in oe-core it's
>>> already the case.
>>
>> It's also the case for angstrom-feed-configs, which got used as template
>> for the distro-feed-configs recipe.
> 
> Damn it, I missed the PACKAGE_ARCH line within the distro-feed-configs
> recipe. But the issue with PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS is still remaining ...
> 
> As I see angstrom-feed-configs uses PACKAGE_ARCHS which includes
> PACKAGE_ARCHS, but why should I update the feed on my machine for an
> architecture I am not running on? So I would propose to only add feeds
> for all, ${MACHINE_ARCH} and ${TARGET_ARCH} (whats with noarch, any as
> they are listed in bitbake.conf? they are only relicts from old times?).

root@usrp-e1xx:~# ls /etc/opkg/
arch.conf  base-feed.conf  debug-feed.conf  gstreamer-feed.conf
noarch-feed.conf  opkg.conf  perl-feed.conf  python-feed.conf
sdk-feed.conf  usrp-e1xx-feed.conf

root@usrp-e1xx:~# grep arm /etc/opkg/*
/etc/opkg/arch.conf:arch arm 16
/etc/opkg/arch.conf:arch armv4 21
/etc/opkg/arch.conf:arch armv4t 26
/etc/opkg/arch.conf:arch armv5te 31
/etc/opkg/arch.conf:arch armv6 36
/etc/opkg/arch.conf:arch armv7 41
/etc/opkg/arch.conf:arch armv7a 46
/etc/opkg/base-feed.conf:src/gz base
http://feeds.angstrom-distribution.org/feeds/next/ipk/eglibc/armv7a/base
/etc/opkg/debug-feed.conf:src/gz debug
http://feeds.angstrom-distribution.org/feeds/next/ipk/eglibc/armv7a/debug
/etc/opkg/gstreamer-feed.conf:src/gz gstreamer
http://feeds.angstrom-distribution.org/feeds/next/ipk/eglibc/armv7a/gstreamer
/etc/opkg/perl-feed.conf:src/gz perl
http://feeds.angstrom-distribution.org/feeds/next/ipk/eglibc/armv7a/perl
/etc/opkg/python-feed.conf:src/gz python
http://feeds.angstrom-distribution.org/feeds/next/ipk/eglibc/armv7a/python
/etc/opkg/usrp-e1xx-feed.conf:src/gz usrp-e1xx
http://eu.feeds.angstrom-distribution.org/feeds/next/ipk/eglibc/armv7a/machine/usrp-e1xx
root@usrp-e1xx:~#

So only armv7a there, not armv6 and armv5te, armv4t, etc there.
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