Re: [Angstrom-devel] How do I build the latest?

2008-09-21 Thread Junqian Gordon Xu
On 09/20/2008 05:39 AM, Alessandro Pellizzari wrote: Il giorno gio, 18/09/2008 alle 21.32 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: I'm going through this learning process myself right now and I've attached my own cheat sheet. Spoiler alert: I haven't succeeded in building a working ROM image

Re: [Angstrom-devel] Members of the Angstrom team

2008-09-21 Thread Junqian Gordon Xu
On 09/20/2008 11:42 AM, Thomas Kunze wrote: Hi everybody, I was wondering who is a member of the angstom team? Koen only? Anyone with commit access to oe who wants to be an angstrom member? Who thinks himself as a member atm? I'm asking because its not clear to me who has a vote on various

Re: [Angstrom-devel] How do I build the latest?

2008-09-21 Thread Junqian Gordon Xu
On 09/21/2008 02:53 AM, Alessandro Pellizzari wrote: Il giorno dom, 21/09/2008 alle 02.07 -0500, Junqian Gordon Xu ha scritto: On 09/20/2008 05:39 AM, Alessandro Pellizzari wrote: sudo apt-get install gcc-3.4 (at least in Debian lenny) as qemu needs gcc3 to compile. I only had gcc4

Re: [Angstrom-devel] Why is Angstroms documentation spread over wiki and the webpage?

2008-09-21 Thread Koen Kooi
Bernhard Guillon wrote: Bob Igo schrieb: In my experience, the unofficial apt-gettable OE build instructions were 99% simpler, and 100% painless, when compared with the official build instructions: http://blog.leggewie.org/?p=39 It's the only way I've been able to build Angstrom. This is a

Re: [Angstrom-devel] Angstrom Stable Changelog page

2008-09-21 Thread Junqian Gordon Xu
On 09/20/2008 05:30 AM, Dmitry Artamonow wrote: On 17:36 Wed 17 Sep , Junqian Gordon Xu wrote: I've sketched a stable branch changelog page [1] to help with release announcement and anxious users. Backporters: please add couple of lines after you commit a change to the stable branch. It's

Re: [Angstrom-devel] [RFC] Angstom wiki discussion pages?

2008-09-21 Thread Koen Kooi
Bernhard Guillon wrote: Junqian Gordon Xu schrieb: I would suggest use a single page for now for all the discussion just for simplicity. If there is enough demand, we can expand that to every page. I just found out that there is an add on for discussion pages [1] [2] :) But this add on also

Re: [Angstrom-devel] X/Qt and Zaurus rotation with Opie

2008-09-21 Thread Bernhard Guillon
Junqian Gordon Xu schrieb: The rotation is probably for different Z models (clamshell vs portrait). Could you post or point to the code? Here is the source http://cvs.sourceforge.jp/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xqt/xqt2/xfree86/xqt-driver/qtscreen.cc?rev=1.1view=auto best regard Bernhard Guillon

Re: [Angstrom-devel] X/Qt and Zaurus rotation with Opie

2008-09-21 Thread Junqian Gordon Xu
On 09/21/2008 05:28 AM, Bernhard Guillon wrote: Junqian Gordon Xu schrieb: The rotation is probably for different Z models (clamshell vs portrait). Could you post or point to the code? Here is the source

Re: [Angstrom-devel] X/Qt and Zaurus rotation with Opie

2008-09-21 Thread Koen Kooi
Bernhard Guillon wrote: Hi, I now read the source of X/Qt a bit to debug its behaviour on my SIMpad (screen resolution is switched). It is a hack for Zaurus and there are some ifdefs for it. I was not able to use it without QWS (the hacks for zaurus) at the moment but I keep trying. So I am

Re: [Angstrom-devel] X/Qt and Zaurus rotation with Opie

2008-09-21 Thread Paul Eggleton
On Sunday 21 September 2008, you wrote: Thinking outside the box for a moment: you could use qvfb[1] inside an X11 session to run opie or opie apps. Actually that's a great idea, perhaps someone could test it? Cheers, Paul ___ Angstrom-distro-devel

[Angstrom-devel] Initramfs masterplan proposal

2008-09-21 Thread Koen Kooi
Hi, Interest in initramfs images that make booting from different media easier has picked up lately, so let's come up with a masterplan to streamline development a bit. Background: Angstrom supports devices that have a relatively small internal storage capacity making it hard for the

Re: [Angstrom-devel] Why is Angstroms documentation spread over wiki and the webpage?

2008-09-21 Thread Bob Igo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Koen Kooi wrote: I guess I was unclear when I said: Unsupported stuff has no place in documentation. That means: Unsupported stuff does NOT get mentioned in the documentation. A solution to this would be to support the DEB-based build

Re: [Angstrom-devel] Initramfs masterplan proposal

2008-09-21 Thread Thomas Kunze
Yuri Bushmelev schrieb: 2) Add support for your device to initramfs-kexecboot_1.0.bb by supplying appropriate FBANGLE and INPUTDEV AFAIK thesing considering to call kexecboot binary as init. So FBANGLE/INPUTDEV should be detected somewhere inside kexecboot. E.g. from /proc and /sys

Re: [Angstrom-devel] Why is Angstroms documentation spread over wiki and the webpage?

2008-09-21 Thread Bob Igo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Koen Kooi wrote: To avoid confusion: Angstrom will never support a deb/rpm/whatever based setup method. There's an overhaul scheduled for the angstrom distrofiles, which will alter the way how various options are selected. So people using

Re: [Angstrom-devel] Why is Angstroms documentation spread over wiki and the webpage?

2008-09-21 Thread Bob Igo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Koen Kooi wrote: What happens if you follow the current instructions in http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/building-angstrom ? I'm still installing Ubuntu on my spare machine, but in the meantime I already noticed a problem with the instructions.

Re: [Angstrom-devel] Why is Angstroms documentation spread over wiki and the webpage?

2008-09-21 Thread Koen Kooi
Bob Igo wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Koen Kooi wrote: What happens if you follow the current instructions in http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/building-angstrom ? I'm still installing Ubuntu on my spare machine, but in the meantime I already noticed a problem with

Re: [Angstrom-devel] Why is Angstroms documentation spread over wiki and the webpage?

2008-09-21 Thread Bob Igo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Koen Kooi wrote: Either should be fine. I appreciate you telling me that, but shouldn't the official build instructions be corrected to show a consistent version? - -- Bob Igo StormLogic -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6

Re: [Angstrom-devel] Why is Angstroms documentation spread over wiki and the webpage?

2008-09-21 Thread Bob Igo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Koen Kooi wrote: Bob Igo wrote: Koen Kooi wrote: I appreciate you telling me that, but shouldn't the official build instructions be corrected to show a consistent version? They already have been :) Nearly :) I see that you updated the

Re: [Angstrom-devel] Why is Angstroms documentation spread over wiki and the webpage?

2008-09-21 Thread Bob Igo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Koen Kooi wrote: Indeed there is. Fixed! Thanks for spotting it. It works on my machine because that those have both a 1.8.8 and 1.8.10 dir No problem :) These are exactly the types of things I'd like to discover. - -- Bob Igo StormLogic

Re: [Angstrom-devel] Why is Angstroms documentation spread over wiki and the webpage?

2008-09-21 Thread Bernhard Guillon
Koen Kooi schrieb: That won't work. Unsupported stuff has no place in documentation. If it doesn't work, it should be tracked down why it doesn't work and get fixed. I just set up another buildmachine following the instructions to the letter, and it worked. Ok, I started a temporary testing

Re: [Angstrom-devel] Initramfs masterplan proposal

2008-09-21 Thread Koen Kooi
Thomas Kunze wrote: Yuri Bushmelev schrieb: 2) Add support for your device to initramfs-kexecboot_1.0.bb by supplying appropriate FBANGLE and INPUTDEV AFAIK thesing considering to call kexecboot binary as init. So FBANGLE/INPUTDEV should be detected somewhere inside kexecboot. E.g. from

Re: [Angstrom-devel] Members of the Angstrom team

2008-09-21 Thread Bernhard Guillon
Thomas Kunze schrieb: Hi everybody, I was wondering who is a member of the angstom team? Koen only? Anyone with commit access to oe who wants to be an angstrom member? Who thinks himself as a member atm? I'm asking because its not clear to me who has a vote on various issues like

Re: [Angstrom-devel] Why is Angstroms documentation spread over wiki and the webpage?

2008-09-21 Thread Bob Igo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Some other notes: The source-me.txt contents aren't indented properly. Syntactically, it's fine, but it might lead people to believe that PATH=/OE/bitbake-1.8.10/bin:${ORG_PATH} and below should actually be nested. It's also not possible to copy

Re: [Angstrom-devel] Members of the Angstrom team

2008-09-21 Thread Paul Eggleton
On Sunday 21 September 2008, Koen Kooi wrote: Actually, autobuilders are the gatekeepers for the feeds. If you add something to the build-feeds.sh script the autobuilder will build and upload it. A cronjob at the server runs the sorting script every 4 hours. You can of course instruct

Re: [Angstrom-devel] Why is Angstroms documentation spread over wiki and the webpage?

2008-09-21 Thread Bob Igo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 More tidbits: Ultimately, people should run bitbake as regular users, but the guide starts out with mkdir /OE which will only work via sudo or otherwise as root. At the risk of someone becoming root and staying root for the whole setup, why not

Re: [Angstrom-devel] Members of the Angstrom team

2008-09-21 Thread Koen Kooi
Op 21 sep 2008, om 21:48 heeft Paul Eggleton het volgende geschreven: On Sunday 21 September 2008, Koen Kooi wrote: Actually, autobuilders are the gatekeepers for the feeds. If you add something to the build-feeds.sh script the autobuilder will build and upload it. A cronjob at the server

Re: [Angstrom-devel] Feed browser and 2008.6 packages

2008-09-21 Thread Koen Kooi
Paul Eggleton wrote: Hi there, Would it be possible to restrict the feed browser to released feeds? Currently it is listing packages from 2008.6 as well as 2007.12 and that has already confused one user. It lists the feeds in which the package is present, so I don't see a reason not to

Re: [Angstrom-devel] Why is Angstroms documentation spread over wiki and the webpage?

2008-09-21 Thread Koen Kooi
Bob Igo wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Some other notes: The source-me.txt contents aren't indented properly. Syntactically, it's fine, but it might lead people to believe that PATH=/OE/bitbake-1.8.10/bin:${ORG_PATH} and below should actually be nested. It's also not

Re: [Angstrom-devel] Feed browser and 2008.6 packages

2008-09-21 Thread Bernhard Guillon
Koen Kooi schrieb: Paul Eggleton wrote: Hi there, Would it be possible to restrict the feed browser to released feeds? Currently it is listing packages from 2008.6 as well as 2007.12 and that has already confused one user. It lists the feeds in which the package is present, so I don't see

Re: [Angstrom-devel] Feed browser and 2008.6 packages

2008-09-21 Thread Paul Eggleton
On Sunday 21 September 2008, Koen Kooi wrote: It lists the feeds in which the package is present, so I don't see a reason not to include the feeds. Especially considering people are actively using 2008.x images. Ah right, I wasn't aware of that. Cheers, Paul

[Angstrom-devel] monotone db migrate ?

2008-09-21 Thread Javier Grijalba
Hello, I want to build Angstrom with my OpenSuse 10.3 (running in a Vmware). I follow the instructions that are found here http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/building-angstrom 1) I installed monotone rpm -i monotone-0.41-3.1.i586.rpm 2)I want to do linux:/OE # mtn --db=OE.mtn pull

Re: [Angstrom-devel] Feed browser and 2008.6 packages

2008-09-21 Thread Koen Kooi
Bernhard Guillon wrote: Koen Kooi schrieb: Paul Eggleton wrote: Hi there, Would it be possible to restrict the feed browser to released feeds? Currently it is listing packages from 2008.6 as well as 2007.12 and that has already confused one user. It lists the feeds in which the package is

[Angstrom-devel] 2007.12 r19 images?

2008-09-21 Thread Koen Kooi
Hi, What would be a good time to bump to r19 and upload them for testing? I guess the opie dudes get to pick the date since they are doing most of the work for 2007.12 nowadays :) regards, Koen ___ Angstrom-distro-devel mailing list

Re: [Angstrom-devel] Angstrom Stable Changelog page

2008-09-21 Thread Dmitry Artamonow
On 05:16 Sun 21 Sep , Junqian Gordon Xu wrote: On 09/20/2008 05:30 AM, Dmitry Artamonow wrote: On 17:36 Wed 17 Sep , Junqian Gordon Xu wrote: [] Good idea, especially in part of package requests for next stable release. I've added leafpad to list of tested programs - I'm using it

Re: [Angstrom-devel] 2007.12 r19 images?

2008-09-21 Thread Junqian Gordon Xu
On 09/21/2008 03:37 PM, Koen Kooi wrote: Hi, What would be a good time to bump to r19 and upload them for testing? I guess the opie dudes get to pick the date since they are doing most of the work for 2007.12 nowadays :) blueligthing and I think Sep/29 (before the opie 1.2.4 release,

Re: [Angstrom-devel] monotone db migrate ?

2008-09-21 Thread Thomas Kunze
Javier Grijalba schrieb: Hello, I want to build Angstrom with my OpenSuse 10.3 (running in a Vmware). I follow the instructions that are found here http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/building-angstrom 1) I installed monotone rpm -i monotone-0.41-3.1.i586.rpm 2)I want to do linux:/OE # mtn

Re: [Angstrom-devel] fakeroot fetch failed

2008-09-21 Thread Junqian Gordon Xu
On 09/21/2008 07:09 AM, Maurizio Rottin wrote: i just wanted to point out that version 1.9.6 compiles fine and maybe should be added in the OE packages three. I was not looking for a solution, i was proposing solution ;) 1.9.6 pushed in d2682ccdf4be68f6b1b181b6a06003be2cc4122c fakeroot

Re: [Angstrom-devel] monotone db migrate ?

2008-09-21 Thread Javier Grijalba
Hi Thomas, thank you, I did a mtn db migrate --db=OE.mtn afterwards this mtn --db=/OE/OE.mtn pull monotone.openembedded.org org.openembedded.{stable,dev} and now I must wait ... :-) Javier Thomas Kunze schrieb: Javier Grijalba schrieb: Hello, I want to build Angstrom with my OpenSuse

Re: [Angstrom-devel] Feed browser and 2008.6 packages

2008-09-21 Thread Junqian Gordon Xu
On 09/21/2008 03:15 PM, Koen Kooi wrote: Bernhard Guillon wrote: Koen Kooi schrieb: Paul Eggleton wrote: Hi there, Would it be possible to restrict the feed browser to released feeds? Currently it is listing packages from 2008.6 as well as 2007.12 and that has already confused one user. It

Re: [Angstrom-devel] Why is Angstroms documentation spread over wiki and the webpage?

2008-09-21 Thread Bob Igo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dmitry Artamonow wrote: In fact it would be much nicer not to use /OE at all. We can use something like ${HOME}/OE, so we won't need any `su` or `chown` anymore. Personally I have my OE set up exactly this way. I think that'd be fine, too, as

Re: [Angstrom-devel] [RFC] Angstom wiki discussion pages?

2008-09-21 Thread Junqian Gordon Xu
On 09/21/2008 05:05 AM, Bernhard Guillon wrote: Junqian Gordon Xu schrieb: I would suggest use a single page for now for all the discussion just for simplicity. If there is enough demand, we can expand that to every page. I just found out that there is an add on for discussion pages [1]

Re: [Angstrom-devel] Why is Angstroms documentation spread over wiki and the webpage?

2008-09-21 Thread Bernhard Guillon
Bernhard Guillon schrieb: Now, please explain to me why building-angstrom is now duplicated in a wikipage and why the wiki page shouldn't get deleted. Well I got it wrong. I thought you tested the apt-get stuff and found it working fine. I started the wiki page one day before because you

Re: [Angstrom-devel] Why is Angstroms documentation spread over wiki and the webpage?

2008-09-21 Thread Bob Igo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Koen Kooi wrote: What happens if you follow the current instructions in http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/building-angstrom ? Is it still broken? Finally finished building all I could. Building base-image and console-image for the hx4700

[Angstrom-devel] Does .stable branch updates via monotone?

2008-09-21 Thread Dmitry Artamonow
Playing with .stable branch recently I found that it doesn't updates for me anymore and I don't get recent commits via monotone. Doing mtn pull; mtn update shows this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/OE/org.openembedded.stable $ mtn pull ; mtn update mtn: doing anonymous pull; use -kKEYNAME if you need

Re: [Angstrom-devel] Angstrom Stable Changelog page

2008-09-21 Thread Junqian Gordon Xu
On 09/21/2008 03:54 PM, Dmitry Artamonow wrote: On 05:16 Sun 21 Sep , Junqian Gordon Xu wrote: On 09/20/2008 05:30 AM, Dmitry Artamonow wrote: On 17:36 Wed 17 Sep , Junqian Gordon Xu wrote: [] Good idea, especially in part of package requests for next stable release. I've added