Re: [PATCH 0/6] Misc changes relating to toolchain and image gen

[Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com>]

On 11/12/2013 05:23 PM, Mark Hatle wrote:
> A few misc fixes relating to toolchain and image generation.
>
> The first two in the set simply updated gcc to remove the -symlinks package
> in favor of update-alternatives.
>
> The next fixes an issue w/ the previous binutils patch and upgrades.
>
> Next 2 update packagegroups to make revise and use the
> packagegroup-core-buildessentials.
>
> The final patch fixes an issue w/ the image generatation.  If the
> IMAGE_INSTALL contains a dependency instead of a package name, the system
> was not able to translate it into a package.  This now works properly.
>
> Note, there is a case where an unresolvable set could be determined (rare,
> but it is possible), in this case the user would need to add whatever is
> required to fix it to the IMAGE_INSTALL.  (This could happen when 2 or more
> conflicting packages all have the same provide, but none of them are in
> the IMAGE_INSTALL line.  The system will attempt to determine which to
> use, by checking if any of them are already in the IMAGE_INSTALL -- otherwise
> it chooses the first entry.  If something else implied by a packagegroup
> chooses a different version, a conflict would be generated.)
>
> The following changes since commit 616354f13732d13c17434d5b60b166f691c25761:
>
>    binutils: Add gnu-config-native to DEPENDS (2013-11-12 16:00:20 +0000)
>
> are available in the git repository at:
>
>    git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky-contrib mhatle/misc1
>    http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=mhatle/misc1
>
> Mark Hatle (6):
>    gcc: Use alternatives for the *-symlinks packages.
>    gcc: Drop *-symlinks

Mark

This change set seems to be giving the Autobuilder some issues, please 
take a look at the AB (for example: 
http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org:8011/builders/nightly-mips/builds/1/steps/Building%20Images/logs/stdio

Thanks
	Sau!

>    binutils: Ensure old -symlinks packages get removed
>    packagegroups: Remove toolchain *-symlinks packages
>    packagegroup-self-hosted: Use packagegroup-core-buildessentials
>    package_rpm: Allow translation of requirement to package name
>
>   meta/classes/package_rpm.bbclass                   |  79 +++++++++++++++-
>   .../packagegroup-core-buildessential.bb            |   4 -
>   .../packagegroups/packagegroup-self-hosted.bb      |  16 +---
>   meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils.inc        |   1 +
>   meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-target.inc           | 103 +++++++++++++--------
>   5 files changed, 141 insertions(+), 62 deletions(-)
>