From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-gx0-f175.google.com ([209.85.161.175]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PgRNN-0007dI-2v for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Sat, 22 Jan 2011 01:30:45 +0100 Received: by gxk20 with SMTP id 20so786150gxk.6 for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2011 16:30:02 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=Rzvi5ap/P3Y3+3MK0tRHLI0O7ilYSTYDfN6kSA1XJgg=; b=VjDNFj5ymEsc61HyvvOmWbeREq0iWUpf/Px1XqIlXtyL4oKlVdwESdzZK4aqIHksB/ /L5p7Un5lcAXWSHSyYbLLqIMhPoqUUGYjDiFgsKiXKuD3EKBRDLGijMU3/np8QsNe1qp ZPeQh+1WHqUkHHhSn4HFnjaXq7gvMcjzoo6XU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=Wwy8pP3jF5jupOC8iBlgSotuy6xbGk/NyvWdsLL1h9gn14iKDqnNWJ/7+B+BLpwydA Bn+xktEmtO2f+CatEqsI5PCddRN0OZXbnS55jEXbG79G8thNSOgd7IlXw6Tz122geKHa 2PM15ZX/0KYitmjL0ma8jt+lJa7TMNc1XqZu8= Received: by 10.91.163.27 with SMTP id q27mr1597396ago.139.1295656201284; Fri, 21 Jan 2011 16:30:01 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.90.55.10 with HTTP; Fri, 21 Jan 2011 16:29:41 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4D39988B.5020204@balister.org> References: <20110120181233.GA1789@lit.local.igalia.com> <4D39988B.5020204@balister.org> From: Khem Raj Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 16:29:41 -0800 Message-ID: To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org Cc: board@openembedded.org Subject: Re: problems compiling glibc_2.9-r37.4 under Angstrom X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 00:30:45 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 6:30 AM, Philip Balister wrote: > I think these remarks come from discussion over the pandaboard u-boot > situation? If so, let's consider these options: > > 1) Remove the pandaboard machine from OE since it does not build for some > people. > well its a step backwards > 2) Force Koen to update the recipe to something that builds. > he is master of his own time so its not right to force anybody its all volunteer work and we should leverage each others work. > 3) Do nothing. Doesnt take us anywhere. > > No one is happy with the set of options, but the reality is some distros use > source mirrors and do not have issues. Distros that do not use source > mirrors are going to have problems with this and other recipes, so the onus > is on them to resolve these issues. Resolving this is issue does not revolve > around updating the recipe and pushing it un tested for the Panda, since > this is not something that can be tested on another set of hardware. > > So until someone who has a panda and the time and patience to work with > u-boot, minimal will not work for panda. This is because the minimal distro > is supposed to not use advanced OE features such as source mirrors and > PREFERRED_VERSION pinning. Because of these decisions, it is entirely > possible that minimal will not build for all combination by design. > I would propose that we use angstrom-mirrors in minimal distro as a backup to fetch sources from. something like this in minimal.conf would do it SOURCE_MIRROR_URL += "http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/unstable/sources/" INHERIT += "own-mirrors" if we do not want to inherit angstrom-mirrors class directly. >