[yocto] does no one find the bin_package class of any use?

2014-08-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
throughout the dozen or so layers i have on my build host, i have yet to see a single use of the bin_package bbclass file. just curious as to why it seems to be utterly unused. rday -- Robert P. J. Day

[yocto] dev manual, multilib sample code looks wrong

2014-08-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
dev manual, section 5.5.2.2 suggests example configuration in local.conf: MACHINE = qemux86-64 require conf/multilib.conf MULTILIBS = multilib:lib32 DEFAULTTUNE_virtclass-multilib-lib32 = x86 IMAGE_INSTALL = lib32-connman ? isn't that last assignment

[yocto] [yocto-docs][PATCH] dev-manual: tweaks to ch 5, sections 4-6

2014-08-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca --- about to dive into the kernel sections of ch 5 so might as well pass off these changes first to keep things manageable. diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml

Re: [yocto] does no one find the bin_package class of any use?

2014-08-03 Thread Khem Raj
On 14-08-03 03:26:47, Robert P. J. Day wrote: throughout the dozen or so layers i have on my build host, i have yet to see a single use of the bin_package bbclass file. just curious as to why it seems to be utterly unused. it is for packaging prebuilt packages e.g. rpms etc. and mostly I

Re: [yocto] dev manual, multilib sample code looks wrong

2014-08-03 Thread Khem Raj
On 14-08-03 04:48:13, Robert P. J. Day wrote: dev manual, section 5.5.2.2 suggests example configuration in local.conf: MACHINE = qemux86-64 require conf/multilib.conf MULTILIBS = multilib:lib32 DEFAULTTUNE_virtclass-multilib-lib32 = x86 IMAGE_INSTALL =

[yocto] [Package Report System]Upgrade recipes name list

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[yocto] [Package Report System]Manual check recipes name list

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Re: [yocto] question about installing multiple versions of a single library

2014-08-03 Thread Rifenbark, Scott M
I am putting this out on the list as I have no idea. Maybe someone else can explain this one. Scott -Original Message- From: Robert P. J. Day [mailto:rpj...@crashcourse.ca] Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2014 2:05 AM To: Rifenbark, Scott M Subject: question about installing multiple