From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer
<openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/1] QA check for defined packages
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:39:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1318423185.23801.153.camel@ted> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1318371066.git.josh@linux.intel.com>
On Tue, 2011-10-11 at 15:29 -0700, Joshua Lock wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I'm looking for some comments on this WIP patch.
>
> The reason I've added this is because the hob GUI requires us to offer much
> more reliable metadata - we show the user available packages, as defined by
> each recipe, to add to their image. Should a recipe define a package and yet
> not actually create it and the user has included that in their image we cause
> errors at build time.
>
> However whilst the idea seems sound enough, there are some caveats - running
> a world build with this patch I see failures fairly early on at least a few
> of which I'd expect we'll need to special-case:
> * eglibc-local
> * linux-yocto
> * linux-libc-headers
> * gcc-runtime
You'd probably get much better results from this patch if you account
for ALLOW_EMPTY_<pkgname> btw...
Cheers,
Richard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-12 12:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-11 22:29 [RFC PATCH 0/1] QA check for defined packages Joshua Lock
2011-10-11 22:29 ` [RFC PATCH 1/1] insane.bbclass: add qa check to ensure declared packages exist Joshua Lock
2011-10-12 12:37 ` [RFC PATCH 0/1] QA check for defined packages Richard Purdie
2011-10-12 12:40 ` Koen Kooi
2011-10-12 17:43 ` Joshua Lock
2011-10-12 19:18 ` Richard Purdie
2011-10-12 19:23 ` Joshua Lock
2011-10-12 12:39 ` Richard Purdie [this message]
2011-10-12 17:44 ` Joshua Lock
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