Re: [yocto] inconsistent pages out there for setting up your yocto dev host

2012-11-24 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Paul, In message 3038126.PEqOPPdATB@helios you wrote: if you're on an allegedly supported distro, and you do an upgrade, it's entirely possible that one of those bits of software gets upgraded in a way that breaks OE/yocto, and by using ASSUME_PROVIDED, you'll automatically start

Re: [yocto] inconsistent pages out there for setting up your yocto dev host

2012-11-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 22 Nov 2012, Paul Eggleton wrote: On Thursday 22 November 2012 06:54:33 Robert P. J. Day wrote: first, is ASSUME_PROVIDED technically completely superfluous? it's clearly meant to speed up processing, but could one (if one wanted) unset it and have the processing still work

Re: [yocto] inconsistent pages out there for setting up your yocto dev host

2012-11-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 23 Nov 2012, Paul Eggleton wrote: Well, we don't test with any other value of ASSUME_PROVIDED. If you add tools to ASSUME_PROVIDED that we would have otherwise built so that the host tools are used, we haven't tested the build with those host tools. Equally if you remove items from

Re: [yocto] inconsistent pages out there for setting up your yocto dev host

2012-11-22 Thread Paul Eggleton
On Wednesday 21 November 2012 20:19:05 Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Wed, 21 Nov 2012, Paul Eggleton wrote: On Wednesday 21 November 2012 17:23:56 Robert P. J. Day wrote: as i read it, the sanity.bbclass and ASSUME_PROVIDED will dictate what needs to be there and what will be used if it's

Re: [yocto] inconsistent pages out there for setting up your yocto dev host

2012-11-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 22 Nov 2012, Paul Eggleton wrote: On Wednesday 21 November 2012 20:19:05 Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Wed, 21 Nov 2012, Paul Eggleton wrote: On Wednesday 21 November 2012 17:23:56 Robert P. J. Day wrote: as i read it, the sanity.bbclass and ASSUME_PROVIDED will dictate what

Re: [yocto] inconsistent pages out there for setting up your yocto dev host

2012-11-22 Thread Paul Eggleton
On Thursday 22 November 2012 06:54:33 Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Thu, 22 Nov 2012, Paul Eggleton wrote: On Wednesday 21 November 2012 20:19:05 Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Wed, 21 Nov 2012, Paul Eggleton wrote: On Wednesday 21 November 2012 17:23:56 Robert P. J. Day wrote: as i read

Re: [yocto] inconsistent pages out there for setting up your yocto dev host

2012-11-21 Thread Paul Eggleton
On Wednesday 21 November 2012 17:23:56 Robert P. J. Day wrote: i've noticed there are various web pages purporting to explain how to set up a proper OE/yocto development host, but they give what is pretty clearly contradictory information. as one example, there's this page on getting

Re: [yocto] inconsistent pages out there for setting up your yocto dev host

2012-11-21 Thread Rifenbark, Scott M
-Original Message- From: yocto-boun...@yoctoproject.org [mailto:yocto- boun...@yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Paul Eggleton Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 2:51 PM To: Robert P. J. Day Cc: yocto@yoctoproject.org Subject: Re: [yocto] inconsistent pages out there for setting up your

Re: [yocto] inconsistent pages out there for setting up your yocto dev host

2012-11-21 Thread Paul Eggleton
Subject: Re: [yocto] inconsistent pages out there for setting up your yocto dev host On Wednesday 21 November 2012 17:23:56 Robert P. J. Day wrote: i've noticed there are various web pages purporting to explain how to set up a proper OE/yocto development host, but they give what

Re: [yocto] inconsistent pages out there for setting up your yocto dev host

2012-11-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 21 Nov 2012, Paul Eggleton wrote: On Wednesday 21 November 2012 17:23:56 Robert P. J. Day wrote: i've noticed there are various web pages purporting to explain how to set up a proper OE/yocto development host, but they give what is pretty clearly contradictory information.