Re: [PATCH 0/4] Fixes for tiny distros and linux-yocto-tiny

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 08:23 -0800, Darren Hart wrote:
> 
> On 01/03/2012 04:39 PM, Saul Wold wrote:
> > On 12/28/2011 03:38 PM, Darren Hart wrote:
> >> In preparation for defining a poky-tiny distribution for meta-yocto, I found
> >> I needed the following patches. They mostly enable finer grained configuration
> >> of dependencies and allow for building without widechar support.
> >>
> >>
> >> The linux-yocVto-tiny recipe isn't poky-tiny specific and could be of use to
> >> others, so I opted to keep it with the other linux-yocto recipes. It is a
> >> placeholder until the linux-yocto_3.2 recipes are ready for oe-core. At that
> >> time, linux-yocto-tiny will drop all config fragments in favor of the
> >> to-be-in-tree versions and make use of a new yocto/standard/tiny/base branch.
> >> For now, this recipe allows us to build a reasonably small kernel with fewer
> >> dependencies.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Darren
> >>
> >>
> >> The following changes since commit 8f348ccad083d6c02c200652ff6295e701e88f0d:
> >>
> >>    coreutils: ensure --color works so DEPEND on libcap (2011-12-24 10:05:35 +0000)
> >>
> >> are available in the git repository at:
> >>    git://git.yoctoproject.org/user-contrib/dvhart/oe-core dvhart/tiny
> >>    http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/user-contrib/dvhart/oe-core/log/?h=dvhart/tiny
> >>
> >> Darren Hart (3):
> >>    eglibc: Only add eglibc-utils to PACKAGES if wchar is supported
> > This patch was not taken at this time due to the comment on the Mailing List
> > 
> >>    linux-yocto-tiny: New kernel recipe for tiny distros
> >>    task-core-boot: Allow DISTRO to disable keymaps via VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_keymaps
> > These two were merged into OE-Core
> > 
> > 
> >>
> > 
> >> Richard Purdie (1):
> >>    native.bbclass: Fix variable remapping coverage
> >>
> > Richard rejected his own patch as being too much of WIP.
> > 
> 
> OK, just so everyone understands, poky-tiny (merged to meta-yocto) will
> not build until we come up with alternatives to the two patches above.

I rejected my own patch as it results in other build failures. I'm
working on addressing that but fixing one thing properly is breaking
other things and its a mess with changes like:

http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/commit/?h=rpurdie/useradd5&id=3177faee7859f416da72d7d49ae05db5356fbdbd

The first patch is a harder problem, I'm still trying to find something
better way to address it. I did wonder if we could just disable nls
entirely for tiny...

Cheers,

Richard