[yocto] adding package management

2012-12-12 Thread Tim Coote
Hullo I'm new to yocto, so I'm probably not going about this in the optimum way. I'm trying to add package management to a yocto build. My preference would be yum/rpm on a rh/centos/fedora distro (as that's the distro used elsewhere), but I don't think that's feasible. I've added: [code]

Re: [yocto] adding package management

2012-12-12 Thread Burton, Ross
On 12 December 2012 11:13, Tim Coote tim+yoctoproject@coote.org wrote: I'm trying to add package management to a yocto build. My preference would be yum/rpm on a rh/centos/fedora distro (as that's the distro used elsewhere), but I don't think that's feasible. I've added: [code]

Re: [yocto] adding package management

2012-12-12 Thread Tim Coote
Thanks, Ross. That fixed that. Either I had finger trouble before when invoking rpm or I needed to remove the ? from the ?= in PACKAGE_CLASSES ?= package_rpm Am I right in thinking that yum isn't in the standard recipes? Tim On 12 Dec 2012, at 11:18, Burton, Ross ross.bur...@intel.com wrote:

Re: [yocto] adding package management

2012-12-12 Thread Burton, Ross
On 12 December 2012 11:31, Tim Coote tim+yoctoproject@coote.org wrote: Am I right in thinking that yum isn't in the standard recipes? Yum, no. Zypper is in oe-core and is used when you construct a RPM-based image. (note that Zypper is being replaced by Smart in oe-core master) Ross

[yocto] [PATCH runqemu] runqemu: add support for FSTYPE=vmdk

2012-12-12 Thread Trevor Woerner
Allow vmdk images to be run through the 'runqemu' facility. Signed-off-by: Trevor Woerner twoer...@gmail.com --- scripts/runqemu | 39 +-- scripts/runqemu-internal | 20 2 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff

Re: [yocto] [PATCH runqemu] runqemu: add support for FSTYPE=vmdk

2012-12-12 Thread Trevor Woerner
Hi Scott, Thank you for reviewing my patch. On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 12:55 AM, Scott Garman scott.a.gar...@intel.com wrote: This looks ok without having tested it personally. Could you just add a signed-off-by line to the commit? D'oh! Sorry about that. It has obviously been too long since I

[yocto] [PATCH] [eclipse-poky][branch: windows-build] Performance fix for New Bitbake project

2012-12-12 Thread Ioana Grigoropol
- after creating the project, the wizard should not block waiting for the environment to be populated and instead should be ran in the background Signed-off-by: Ioana Grigoropol ioanax.grigoro...@intel.com --- .../src/org/yocto/bc/bitbake/BBSession.java| 81

Re: [yocto] [PATCH v3] [eclipse-poky-windows][branch:windows-build]Remove validate existing repository radio button

2012-12-12 Thread Grigoropol, IoanaX
Hi Jessica, I have sent a new patch that targets the downtime issue that you reported, against windows-build current branch. The downtime that you noticed it is due to the fact that with the current implementation, the commands are ran synchronously, meaning that each command must wait for the

Re: [yocto] adding package management

2012-12-12 Thread Tim Coote
ok. Thanks. just spotted the split between rpm / rpm5 and yum. I suppose that the knock on is managing multiple repos for different update managers. don't suppose you know if there are material differences from a packaging/dependency point of view between rpm4 and rpm5? is there an eta for

Re: [yocto] adding package management

2012-12-12 Thread Burton, Ross
On 12 December 2012 12:07, Tim Coote tim+yoctoproject@coote.org wrote: don't suppose you know if there are material differences from a packaging/dependency point of view between rpm4 and rpm5? Not sure, I prefer opkg for Yocto and am a Debian user for my desktop.s is there an eta for

Re: [yocto] Disabling PREMIRRORS and upstream sources

2012-12-12 Thread Rifenbark, Scott M
Hi Jon, Thanks for the clarification on which manual release you were looking at. I am the technical writer for the project so hopefully someone from the team will address the technical aspect of you issue. If there is a way to disable these within a specific recipe then I can get that

Re: [yocto] Disabling PREMIRRORS and upstream sources

2012-12-12 Thread Paul Eggleton
On Monday 03 December 2012 10:19:00 Jon Szymaniak wrote: Is there a simple way to disable the use of PREMIRRORS and MIRRORS within a recipe? (Perhaps the answer here might be worth mentioning in Section 12.23 of the Poky Reference Manual?) My use case for this is the situation where the

Re: [yocto] [RFCv3 0/7][eclipse-poky] Integrate yocto documentation into eclipse

2012-12-12 Thread Timo Müller
Hi, m...@timomueller.eu wrote, On 06.12.2012 16:48: From: Timo Mueller timo.muel...@bmw-carit.de Hi, since the last proposal some things have changed: 1. Eclipse help generation is now part of the yocto-docs project (currently available in the origin/timo branch) 2. We agreed that the plugin

[yocto] Building pseudo fails

2012-12-12 Thread Barros Pena, Belen
I just downloaded the Danny release to an Ubuntu 12.10 computer, and pseudo failed to build. Before opening a bug, I just wanted to make sure it's not something silly I am doing. The log file is attached and below I've pasted the terminal output. Thanks! Belen Pseudo is not present but is

Re: [yocto] Building pseudo fails

2012-12-12 Thread Burton, Ross
On 12 December 2012 14:09, Barros Pena, Belen belen.barros.p...@intel.com wrote: I just downloaded the Danny release to an Ubuntu 12.10 computer, and pseudo failed to build. Before opening a bug, I just wanted to make sure it's not something silly I am doing. The log file is attached and below

Re: [yocto] Building pseudo fails

2012-12-12 Thread Paul Eggleton
On Wednesday 12 December 2012 14:15:50 Burton, Ross wrote: On 12 December 2012 14:09, Barros Pena, Belen belen.barros.p...@intel.com wrote: I just downloaded the Danny release to an Ubuntu 12.10 computer, and pseudo failed to build. Before opening a bug, I just wanted to make sure it's

Re: [yocto] Building pseudo fails

2012-12-12 Thread Barros Pena, Belen
That totally worked. Silly me, just realised I forgot to check the quick start guide to install the required packages. Thanks, Ross. Belen On 12/12/2012 14:15, Burton, Ross ross.bur...@intel.com wrote: On 12 December 2012 14:09, Barros Pena, Belen belen.barros.p...@intel.com wrote: I just

[yocto] building for ZYNQ ZC702 SoC

2012-12-12 Thread Anup Kini
Hi all, I am new to Yocto. I am trying to build an environment with arm-gcc integrated since the ZYNQ board has ARM Cortex A9 ducal core on it. Let me know if any one has tried something similar or some pointers on how i can proceed. -- *Anup Kini *Systems Engineer *

Re: [yocto] building for ZYNQ ZC702 SoC

2012-12-12 Thread Elvis Dowson
Hi Anup, Atleast two people on the yocto mailing list have successfully built the toolchain and rootfile system for the ZC702, Philip Balister and myself, using the latest yocto master. Here are a few steps: 01. Look up the Yocto Quick Start Guide to setup your Ubuntu 12.10 x86

Re: [yocto] CyaSSL Yocto Recipe

2012-12-12 Thread Richard Purdie
On Tue, 2012-10-09 at 14:26 -0600, Chris Conlon wrote: On Sep 6, 2012, at 4:53 PM, Richard Purdie wrote: This looks like an interesting piece of software and a quick read through your webpages suggests there may be some interesting applications of this within OE which I'd love to explore.

Re: [yocto] building for ZYNQ ZC702 SoC

2012-12-12 Thread Anup Kini
Hi Elvis, I could not find where the arm gcc was included in this build. I was checking the build process and took the gcc.4.4.6 while building the core-image-minimal. Hence i wanted to confirm if the arm-gcc can be integrated and steps to do it. On 12 December 2012 16:18, Elvis Dowson

Re: [yocto] building for ZYNQ ZC702 SoC

2012-12-12 Thread Elvis Dowson
Hi Anup, On Dec 12, 2012, at 7:32 PM, Anup Kini ak...@synapticon.com wrote: I could not find where the arm gcc was included in this build. I was checking the build process and took the gcc.4.4.6 while building the core-image-minimal. Hence i wanted to confirm if the arm-gcc can be

Re: [yocto] Disabling PREMIRRORS and upstream sources

2012-12-12 Thread Jon Szymaniak
Hi Jon, Thanks for the clarification on which manual release you were looking at. I am the technical writer for the project so hopefully someone from the team will address the technical aspect of you issue. If there is a way to disable these within a specific recipe then I can get that

Re: [yocto] Disabling PREMIRRORS and upstream sources

2012-12-12 Thread Paul Eggleton
On Wednesday 12 December 2012 11:32:39 Jon Szymaniak wrote: Just to make sure I'm understanding this... so when I place PREMIRRORS = in a recipe, I see that it doesn't affect the associated variables in other recipes. Is this because I'm inherently setting up PREMIRRORS_${PN}, which is

Re: [yocto] Difference of toolchain recipes

2012-12-12 Thread Mark Hatle
On 12/11/12 3:20 PM, Rifenbark, Scott M wrote: I think what I am going to do is document these in general as part of the Terms section in the YP Development Manual where the term Cross-Development Toolchain is defined. Would putting such a high-level list in the YP documentation be

Re: [yocto] adding package management

2012-12-12 Thread Mark Hatle
On 12/12/12 5:43 AM, Burton, Ross wrote: On 12 December 2012 11:31, Tim Coote tim+yoctoproject@coote.org wrote: Am I right in thinking that yum isn't in the standard recipes? Yum, no. Zypper is in oe-core and is used when you construct a RPM-based image. (note that Zypper is being

Re: [yocto] adding package management

2012-12-12 Thread Mark Hatle
On 12/12/12 6:07 AM, Tim Coote wrote: ok. Thanks. just spotted the split between rpm / rpm5 and yum. I suppose that the knock on is managing multiple repos for different update managers. don't suppose you know if there are material differences from a packaging/dependency point of view

Re: [yocto] Disabling PREMIRRORS and upstream sources

2012-12-12 Thread Rifenbark, Scott M
If this is something we would not encourage in a published recipe, then it is questionable as to documenting this simple way. Or, perhaps, document it with the caveat that it is not something you would normally do? Scott -Original Message- From: Paul Eggleton

Re: [yocto] New Documentation: Linux Kernel Development with the Yocto Project

2012-12-12 Thread Stewart, David C
A good read, thanks! Dave On 12/12/12 12:44 AM, Darren Hart dvh...@linux.intel.com wrote: In response to much feedback on the linux-yocto recipes and the associated kernel tools, we have made a number of improvements in an attempt to make them more accessible. In particular, the tools now allow

[yocto] might it be worth explaining BBMASK more comprehensively?

2012-12-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
a bit more pedantry, but is there a more complete example of the use of BBMASK than the trivial example in the ref and dev manuals? the ref manual provides this example by way of explanation: BBMASK = .*/meta-ti/recipes-misc/ well, ok, except you occasinally find slight variations like:

Re: [yocto] might it be worth explaining BBMASK more comprehensively?

2012-12-12 Thread Rifenbark, Scott M
Please feel free (anyone) to provide some useful examples and a bit of explanation for each and I will be happy to get them in the manual(s). Scott -Original Message- From: yocto-boun...@yoctoproject.org [mailto:yocto- boun...@yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Robert P. J. Day Sent:

Re: [yocto] should users be able to run yocto's pre-built images standalone?

2012-12-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 11 Dec 2012, Rudolf Streif wrote: Hi Robert, a basic question -- is it supported that users be able to download and run yocto's pre-built QEMU images without having to download an entire build system, and set up bitbake, etc?  theoretically, of course, it

Re: [yocto] Difference of toolchain recipes

2012-12-12 Thread Rifenbark, Scott M
Thanks for the feedback Mark. I will go ahead with it. Scott -Original Message- From: Mark Hatle [mailto:mark.ha...@windriver.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 9:08 AM To: Rifenbark, Scott M Cc: yocto@yoctoproject.org Subject: Re: [yocto] Difference of toolchain recipes On

Re: [yocto] Difference of toolchain recipes

2012-12-12 Thread Bill Traynor
I can likely help with this, Scott. On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Rifenbark, Scott M scott.m.rifenb...@intel.com wrote: Thanks for the feedback Mark. I will go ahead with it. Scott -Original Message- From: Mark Hatle [mailto:mark.ha...@windriver.com] Sent: Wednesday,

Re: [yocto] might it be worth explaining BBMASK more comprehensively?

2012-12-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 12 Dec 2012, Rifenbark, Scott M wrote: Please feel free (anyone) to provide some useful examples and a bit of explanation for each and I will be happy to get them in the manual(s). i forgot to mention this snippet i ran across in the meta-angstrom layer's contrib/local.conf:

[yocto] Strange error with missing meta-yocto in bblayers

2012-12-12 Thread Darren Hart
When trying to build a machine I had not built in a while, I got the following error: $ bitbake core-image-minimal Pseudo is not present but is required, building this first before the main build NOTE: Your conf/bblayers.conf has been automatically updated. Please re-run bitbake . mkdir: cannot

Re: [yocto] might it be worth explaining BBMASK more comprehensively?

2012-12-12 Thread Martin Jansa
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 11:42:41AM -0800, Tim Bird wrote: On 12/12/2012 11:27 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: a bit more pedantry, but is there a more complete example of the use of BBMASK than the trivial example in the ref and dev manuals? the ref manual provides this example by way

Re: [yocto] per-image ROOTFS sizes

2012-12-12 Thread Darren Hart
On 12/11/2012 01:05 PM, Trevor Woerner wrote: Hi, Are per-image ROOTFS sizes (i.e. IMAGE_ROOTFS_SIZE_image) still supported? From this: http://patches.openembedded.org/patch/4671/ it would appear not. However poky-extras/meta-kernel-dev/conf/machine/example.conf contains

[yocto] SRC_URI and appending and a style guide?

2012-12-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
it's a pedantry-laden day today so i'm going to continue to whine about aesthetics. what about a yocto style guide for coding style recommendations? for example, consider the variations: poky/meta/recipes-support/libcroco/libcroco_0.6.3.bb:SRC_URI_append = file://croco.patch;apply=yes \

Re: [yocto] per-image ROOTFS sizes

2012-12-12 Thread Trevor Woerner
Hi Darren, On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Darren Hart dvh...@linux.intel.com wrote: On 12/11/2012 01:05 PM, Trevor Woerner wrote: Are per-image ROOTFS sizes (i.e. IMAGE_ROOTFS_SIZE_image) still supported? Interesting, I haven't tried myself. Have you tried and run into an issue? Yes. I

Re: [yocto] might it be worth explaining BBMASK more comprehensively?

2012-12-12 Thread Tim Bird
On 12/12/2012 11:53 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Wed, 12 Dec 2012, Tim Bird wrote: On 12/12/2012 11:27 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: a bit more pedantry, but is there a more complete example of the use of BBMASK than the trivial example in the ref and dev manuals? the ref manual

Re: [yocto] per-image ROOTFS sizes

2012-12-12 Thread Darren Hart
On 12/12/2012 12:14 PM, Trevor Woerner wrote: Hi Darren, On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Darren Hart dvh...@linux.intel.com wrote: On 12/11/2012 01:05 PM, Trevor Woerner wrote: Are per-image ROOTFS sizes (i.e. IMAGE_ROOTFS_SIZE_image) still supported? Interesting, I haven't tried

Re: [yocto] might it be worth explaining BBMASK more comprehensively?

2012-12-12 Thread Tim Bird
On 12/12/2012 11:53 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Wed, 12 Dec 2012, Tim Bird wrote: I don't know if the .= with leading bar is the optimal way to append on to BBMASK, but it seems fairly straightforward to me. I sometimes use the leading .* and sometimes not. it doesn't seem like the

Re: [yocto] Difference of toolchain recipes

2012-12-12 Thread Rifenbark, Scott M
Thanks Bill, I will put together my draft for the section and send it your way. You can give it a good technical review. Scott From: Bill Traynor [mailto:w...@alphatroop.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 11:37 AM To: Rifenbark, Scott M Cc: Mark Hatle; yocto@yoctoproject.org Subject: Re:

Re: [yocto] per-image ROOTFS sizes

2012-12-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 12 Dec 2012, Trevor Woerner wrote: Hi Darren, On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Darren Hart dvh...@linux.intel.com wrote: On 12/11/2012 01:05 PM, Trevor Woerner wrote: Are per-image ROOTFS sizes (i.e. IMAGE_ROOTFS_SIZE_image) still supported? Interesting, I haven't tried myself.

Re: [yocto] per-image ROOTFS sizes

2012-12-12 Thread Trevor Woerner
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Darren Hart dvh...@linux.intel.com wrote: What is the reason you would like to do this just for vmdk? Is it to avoid increasing the size of all the images when it is only vmdk you care about? That would makes sense. Yes, that's it exactly. I have an existing

Re: [yocto] per-image ROOTFS sizes

2012-12-12 Thread Trevor Woerner
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: so what happens if you try to set the appropriate variables above? When Yocto creates a VMDK, it creates 2 partitions: - an MSDOS partition for the syslinux stuff - the ext{3,4} partition of your root image When it

Re: [yocto] per-image ROOTFS sizes

2012-12-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 12 Dec 2012, Trevor Woerner wrote: On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: so what happens if you try to set the appropriate variables above? When Yocto creates a VMDK, it creates 2 partitions: - an MSDOS partition for the syslinux stuff -

Re: [yocto] per-image ROOTFS sizes

2012-12-12 Thread Trevor Woerner
Hi Robert, (we met at OLS last summer, I came and chatted with you briefly after your presentation) On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: now i'm interested, so ... what are your config steps? i wouldn't mind trying to reproduce this on my system.

Re: [yocto] per-image ROOTFS sizes

2012-12-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 12 Dec 2012, Trevor Woerner wrote: Hi Robert, (we met at OLS last summer, I came and chatted with you briefly after your presentation) On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: now i'm interested, so ... what are your config steps? i

Re: [yocto] per-image ROOTFS sizes

2012-12-12 Thread Saul Wold
On 12/12/2012 03:16 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Wed, 12 Dec 2012, Trevor Woerner wrote: On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: so what happens if you try to set the appropriate variables above? When Yocto creates a VMDK, it creates 2 partitions: -