Re: [PATCH 0/4] linux-yocto: consolidated update

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

On Wed, 2012-08-15 at 16:06 -0400, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> Here's a consolidated update that I've had under test in one
> way or another for 3 weeks now. Tom Z and others have also been
> using parts of this for their work, so it has seen a reasonably
> wide set of testers.
> 
> This series further streamlines working with linux-yocto* based
> recipes/repositories by breaking the last branch based triggers
> in the tooling. Branches were the most important piece of 
> information when working with the tools and a linux-yocto repository,
> but this has now been generalized, and BSP descriptions (among
> other things) are now found by MACHINE and kernel type only. 
> 
> With this, KBRANCH now becomes what it was supposed to be, an 
> human readible indication of the branch that is supposed to be
> built, and one that the kern-tools will validate. If that branch
> is not validated, an error is thrown. If the default branch is
> left as-is, then the in-tree description leaves you on the 
> proper branch and all is well.
> 
> I also have a collection of bug fixes to the tools, including
> support for having a meta branch not called 'meta'.
> 
> I'd recommend that this go through some AB tests, and I'll be
> around if there's a corner case that I managed to miss.

I think 

http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org:8010/builders/nightly-tiny/builds/199/steps/shell_34/logs/stdio

is due to something in this series...

Cheers,

Richard