in my opinion, this fits nicely into the oe-core, into the scripts/contrib folder.
On Tue, 2017-08-08 at 17:24 -0700, Behan Webster wrote: > I maintain a script (ready-for.sh) which checks requirements for various > courses I teach which makes sure you have the right computer, RAM, disk space > available, and such in order to do the class. It also makes sure that the > required packages for your $DISTRO are installed (supported distros are > CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Mint, openSUSE, RHEL, SLES, Ubuntu, with some initial > support for ArchLinux). It has a full test suite to make sure the package > lists are valid and available for each of the distro. It also can output a > JSON version of the requirements (if you want to extract requirements for > something else like a webpage or document) and includes an auto-updater. Its > designed to make getting ready for a specific course very easy for a new > person. I also use it to debug setup issues on people’s computers over the > phone or email. > > One of the courses I maintain requirements for is the LF Yocto Project > course. And recently I rebuilt the script into something more generic > (check-requirements.sh) which specifically allows you to check for > requirements for the various groupings of packages in the Yocto Project > documentation. > > I’ve made it initially available as an alpha release via > https://cm.converseincode.com/cr/ <https://cm.converseincode.com/cr/> , and I > plan to maintain it along with the script described above since they share so > much of the same code. > > The idea is that users would download and run this script once in order to > make sure their machines are ready to build OE or Poky or whatever, instead > of reading the setup document and manually installing all the packages. One > would still have to clone the appropriate git repo to get a copy of OE or > Poky after that. > > As an example, here it is being run on an Ubuntu-16.04 machine which is > missing packages for building the documentation. (Showing the YP requirements > are boring, because this computer already meets those requirements because I > build OE all the time). It is to be run as a normal user, but uses sudo > internally when it needs to run privileged commands. In fact if you try to > run it as root, it complains. > > $ sudo ./check-requirements.sh > [sudo] password for behanw: > FAIL: Please don't run as root > NOTE: Sudo will be used internally by this script as required. > > $ ./check-requirements.sh --list > Available (4) options: > YPDOC - Requirements for Yocto Project Documentation > YPGUI - Requirements for Yocto Project GUI > YP - Requirements for Yocto Project > YPST - Requirements for OpenEmbedded Self-Test > > $ ./check-requirements.sh YPDOC > Checking that this computer is suitable for YPDOC: Requirements for Yocto > Project Documentation > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > PASS: CPU architecture is x86_64 > PASS: 4 core CPU (good enough but 8 is preferred) > PASS: Your CPU appears powerful enough (currently at 23228 BogoMIPS > cumulatively) > PASS: 6 GiB RAM > PASS: 158 GiB free disk space in /home/behanw > PASS: Linux distribution architecture is x86_64 > PASS: Linux distribution is Ubuntu:amd64-16.04 (xenial) > PASS: Internet is available (which is required in this case) > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WARN: Some packages are missing > NOTE: Need to install: dblatex docbook-dsssl docbook-utils fop jadetex > java-wrappers libavalon-framework-java libbatik-java libbsf-java > libfontbox-java libfop-java libosp5 libostyle1c2 libsgmls-perl libsp1c2 > libxmlgraphics-commons-java openjade sgmlspl sp texlive-bibtex-extra > texlive-math-extra xmlto > You can install missing packages by running: > ./check-requirements.sh --install YPDOC > or by: > sudo apt-get --no-install-recommends install dblatex docbook-dsssl > docbook-utils fop jadetex java-wrappers libavalon-framework-java > libbatik-java libbsf-java libfontbox-java libfop-java libosp5 libostyle1c2 > libsgmls-perl libsp1c2 libxmlgraphics-commons-java openjade sgmlspl sp > texlive-bibtex-extra texlive-math-extra xmlto > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WARN: Your computer doesn't meet the stated requirements unless you can fix > the above warnings. > WARN: You also have some missing packages. > > $ ./check-requirements.sh --install YPDOC > Checking that this computer is suitable for YPDOC: Requirements for Yocto > Project Documentation > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > <snip> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WARN: Some packages are missing > WARN: About to install: dblatex docbook-dsssl docbook-utils fop jadetex > java-wrappers libavalon-framework-java libbatik-java libbsf-java > libfontbox-java libfop-java libosp5 libostyle1c2 libsgmls-perl libsp1c2 > libxmlgraphics-commons-java openjade sgmlspl sp texlive-bibtex-extra > texlive-math-extra xmlto > Is that okay? [y/N] > > Is this useful? Thoughts? Suggestions? > > Give it a try and let me know what you think. It’s extensible, so adding > other groupings of packages and such, or adding aliases for OE or something > is all trivially done. > > Thanks, > > Behan -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list Openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
