Re: [yocto] Using smart within an SDK

2015-05-26 Thread Ash Charles
On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 4:04 PM, Randy Witt wrote: > It is a bit of a different workflow than we were initially looking at, but I > don't see a reason we couldn't do it. The locked signatures file should be > able to be a superset of items you would want, so theoretically if you only > wanted item

Re: [yocto] Using smart within an SDK

2015-05-26 Thread Ash Charles
On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 3:18 PM, Randy Witt wrote: > Did you source the environment-setup script? If so, what distro were you > using? Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid-Vervet). I used an SDK created based on the gumstix-console-image rather than a mainstream image from meta-yocto so perhaps there is a particu

Re: [yocto] Using smart within an SDK

2015-05-22 Thread Ash Charles
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 10:13 PM, wrote: > The idea is that an sdk will comprise of a manifest(contains list of > sstate items in the sdk) and some location that contains the items in the > manifest. So to update the sdk you would run a command and give it the > location of the manifest and sstat

Re: [yocto] Using smart within an SDK

2015-05-18 Thread Ash Charles
On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 7:54 PM, ChenQi wrote: > The rpm database is not usable. You do a query to list files that a package > installed and you will find all the paths are not correct. Ah okay---that makes sense. Thanks. > > We are now working a new kind of SDK in OE. We call it extensible SDK.

Re: [yocto] Using smart within an SDK

2015-05-14 Thread Ash Charles
On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 7:26 PM, ChenQi wrote: > For the nativesdk part, we can use smart/rpm to manage packages. A long time > ago, I tried this out and succeeded. > However, for the target part, we cannot do the same thing as the rpm > database for the target part is not usable after installatio

[yocto] Using smart within an SDK

2015-05-13 Thread Ash Charles
Hi, I'd like to be able install packages using smart within an SDK environment (much like [1]; @Erik, did you find a solution?). I stumbled on two questions in looking into this. 1. Why does the nativesdk version of smart get wrapped with these environment variables, 'RPM_USRLIBRPM', 'RPM_ETCRPM

Re: [yocto] Using the yocto version of createrepo (want the MISSINGOK flag)

2015-04-17 Thread Ash Charles
On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 2:43 PM, Ash Charles wrote: > 2. BBCLASSEXTEND nativesdk for createrepo and add it to the > buildtools-tarball.bb recipe. This feels like the best option. But > the python environment doesn't get picked up properly...e.g. > Traceback (most recent cal

[yocto] Using the yocto version of createrepo (want the MISSINGOK flag)

2015-04-17 Thread Ash Charles
Hi, I'm hosting an RPM based package repository on a different server than the build machine; I've been use the distro's version of the createrepo tool to keep the package index up to date. The Yocto version of the createrepo tool has some customizations notably adding a 'missingok' flag to handl

Re: [yocto] False dependency on non-existent libgettextlib-dev

2015-04-09 Thread Ash Charles
On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 11:54 PM, Khem Raj wrote: > its probably due to solib name renaming, which is debian thing. > you just might kill this -dev package completely and just have gettext-dev > have everything development related. Hi Khem, Thanks for your response. How would I go about killing t

[yocto] False dependency on non-existent libgettextlib-dev

2015-04-08 Thread Ash Charles
Hi, In my Yocto build, the RPM package for gettext-dev has a depency on an apparently non-existent package "libgettextlib-dev". In the generated pkgdata/runtime/gettext-dev file, I see "RRECOMMENDS_gettext-dev: libgettextlib-dev libgettextsrc-dev glibc-dev expat-dev". >From the gettext recipe,

Re: [yocto] Adding 'sbin' to default path

2015-02-03 Thread Ash Charles
a uses non-sbin path. Cheers, Ash On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 2:40 AM, Paul Eggleton wrote: > Hi Ash, > > On Friday 30 January 2015 10:28:21 Ash Charles wrote: >> Why does the PATH variable in the dot.bashrc shipped by the base-files >> not include 'sbin' paths? It seems like

[yocto] Adding 'sbin' to default path

2015-01-30 Thread Ash Charles
Hi, Why does the PATH variable in the dot.bashrc shipped by the base-files not include 'sbin' paths? It seems like any interactive user should be able to call e.g. 'ifconfig' informationally---they should, and would still be, blocked from calling 'ifconfig eth0 up' After looking at the PATH for

Re: [yocto] 'screen' MACHINE_FEATURE

2015-01-28 Thread Ash Charles
Thanks very much Saul (and thanks for the git tips). I'll pull this MACHINE_FEATURE from my machines. --Ash On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 1:14 PM, Saul Wold wrote: > On 01/27/2015 11:01 AM, Ash Charles wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Based on the yocto manual [1], i

[yocto] 'screen' MACHINE_FEATURE

2015-01-27 Thread Ash Charles
Hi, Based on the yocto manual [1], it looks like "screen" is a valid MACHINE_FEATURE and, in fact, it looks like some machines actually call out this feature. That said, I can't actually see that this MACHINE_FEATURE is used. I checked with buildhistory and some grepping but maybe I missed somet

Re: [yocto] virtual/mesa, virtual/libgl provided by multiple packages

2014-06-26 Thread Ash Charles
Hi Alex, On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Alex J Lennon wrote: > I think these two lines in cogl-1.0.inc are causing mesa to be pulled in > incorrectly, but I'm not sure what ERDEPENDS does... > > # Extra RDEPENDS for PACKAGECONFIG > # This has to be explictly listed, because cogl dlopens the back

Re: [yocto] Setting preferred version of kernel for feature support

2014-06-20 Thread Ash Charles
Hi, In thinking about this a bit more (and struggling with all three methods), I wonder that creating a separate machine type in much the same fashion as crownbay and crownbay-noemgd is the way to go. --Ash On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Ash Charles wrote: > Hi, > > I have two kerne

[yocto] Setting preferred version of kernel for feature support

2014-06-17 Thread Ash Charles
Hi, I have two kernels for my device: one is current mainline kernel and one is an older kernel that supports magic proprietary hardware acceleration blobs. Some developers want the modern kernel, others need the hardware acceleration which means they need the older kernel plus a bunch of out-of-

[yocto] Changing metadata during bitbaking

2014-05-15 Thread Ash Charles
Hi, (apologies if this is the wrong list---I tried sending to the bitbake list and got bounced) Under what conditions can I change the content of layers without affecting an ongoing bitbake? On occasion, I find myself wanting to do git operations on my layers while I've got a build going on. I'

Re: [yocto] Using MACHINE_EXTRA_RDEPENDS to install wifi Firmware

2014-03-06 Thread Ash Charles
! --Ash On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Ash Charles wrote: > I think my response yesterday was slightly premature... > > If I understand correctly, packages of the form > 'kernel-firmware-' are provided by the kernel recipe for any > firmware that is licensed such that it

Re: [yocto] Using MACHINE_EXTRA_RDEPENDS to install wifi Firmware

2014-02-28 Thread Ash Charles
;t populate any firmware Am I on the right track? --Ash On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 5:09 PM, Ash Charles wrote: > On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Khem Raj wrote: >> as you can see kernel-firmware-whiteheat is the package name under >> which kernel is packaging it >> so includ

Re: [yocto] Using MACHINE_EXTRA_RDEPENDS to install wifi Firmware

2014-02-27 Thread Ash Charles
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Khem Raj wrote: > as you can see kernel-firmware-whiteheat is the package name under > which kernel is packaging it > so include that if you want the kernel provided one. Ah---perfect. That makes sense. I had MACHINE_EXTRA_RDEPENDS += "linux-firmware-sd8686" I sho

Re: [yocto] Using MACHINE_EXTRA_RDEPENDS to install wifi Firmware

2014-02-27 Thread Ash Charles
Hi Khem, Thanks for your response. On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 4:26 PM, Khem Raj wrote: > it seems this module is installing/overwriting a file thats coming > from some other recipe > that you omitted from the errors above so cant tell which one exactly. I've posted a more complete log: http://pasteb

[yocto] Using MACHINE_EXTRA_RDEPENDS to install wifi Firmware

2014-02-27 Thread Ash Charles
Hi, I'm seeing warnings like " WARNING: The recipe linux-firmware is trying to install files into a shared area when those files already exist. Those files and their manifest location are: /home/ash/Store/Yocto/yocto/build/tmp/sysroots/overo/lib/firmware/whiteheat.fw Matched in manifest-ove

Re: [yocto] Configuring Channels for Smart PM

2013-07-26 Thread Ash Charles
rtpm_1.4.1.bbappend - this worked: https://github.com/gumstix/meta-gumstix-extras/commit/acff007afffb19269e21bfd4cc1398fe23f00160 Hurrah! --Ash On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 2:24 AM, Paul Eggleton wrote: > Hi Ash, > > On Wednesday 24 July 2013 18:59:30 Ash Charles wrote: >> I'm look

[yocto] Configuring Channels for Smart PM

2013-07-24 Thread Ash Charles
Hi, I'm looking to use a bbappend to add a repository/channel that the smart package manager can use out of the box. For zypper, this was just a question of adding a configuration file to the recipe. How might I preconfigure Smart? The only way I've come up with so far is a postinst 'smart cha