Re: [yocto] of recipes and packages

2012-08-23 Thread Chris Larson
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Trevor Woerner wrote: > On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 3:14 AM, Paul Eggleton > wrote: >> In this >> instance we can change it very easily in the BitBake help text and we should >> do so. > > So should I send in a patch against the Yocto Project's > poky/bitbake/bin/bit

Re: [yocto] of recipes and packages

2012-08-23 Thread Trevor Woerner
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 3:14 AM, Paul Eggleton wrote: > In this > instance we can change it very easily in the BitBake help text and we should > do so. So should I send in a patch against the Yocto Project's poky/bitbake/bin/bitbake or try to have it accepted upstream? ___

Re: [yocto] of recipes and packages

2012-08-23 Thread Paul Eggleton
On Wednesday 22 August 2012 13:05:15 Trevor Woerner wrote: > to discover the list of available recipes (for a given set of layers) > one can use: > $ bitbake -s > > However: > > $ bitbake --help | grep -- -s > ... > -s, --show-versions show current and preferred versions of all packages > ...

Re: [yocto] of recipes and packages

2012-08-22 Thread Khem Raj
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Tim Bird wrote: > On 08/22/2012 01:27 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> On Wed, 22 Aug 2012, Chris Larson wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Trevor Woerner wrote: On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Chris Larson wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 12:

Re: [yocto] of recipes and packages

2012-08-22 Thread Tim Bird
On 08/22/2012 01:27 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Wed, 22 Aug 2012, Chris Larson wrote: > >> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Trevor Woerner wrote: >>> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Chris Larson wrote: On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Trevor Woerner wrote: > "bitbake -s" d

Re: [yocto] of recipes and packages

2012-08-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012, Chris Larson wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Trevor Woerner wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Chris Larson wrote: > >> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Trevor Woerner > >> wrote: > >>> "bitbake -s" doesn't list "net-snmp-dbg net-snmp-doc net-snmp-dev..

Re: [yocto] of recipes and packages

2012-08-22 Thread Chris Larson
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Trevor Woerner wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Chris Larson wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Trevor Woerner wrote: >>> "bitbake -s" doesn't list "net-snmp-dbg net-snmp-doc net-snmp-dev..." >>> it lists "net-snmp". Therefore couldn't the wordi

Re: [yocto] of recipes and packages

2012-08-22 Thread Trevor Woerner
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Chris Larson wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Trevor Woerner wrote: >> "bitbake -s" doesn't list "net-snmp-dbg net-snmp-doc net-snmp-dev..." >> it lists "net-snmp". Therefore couldn't the wording of the bitbake >> help be improved to say: >> >> -s, --sho

Re: [yocto] of recipes and packages

2012-08-22 Thread Chris Larson
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Trevor Woerner wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Jeff Osier-Mixon wrote: >> In this case, bitbake is looking for the expiration dates on your >> ingredients - the version of the package that each recipe builds. > > But your wording would seem to imply _a_

Re: [yocto] of recipes and packages

2012-08-22 Thread Trevor Woerner
Hi Jeff, Thanks for your tasty metaphors! On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Jeff Osier-Mixon wrote: > In this case, bitbake is looking for the expiration dates on your > ingredients - the version of the package that each recipe builds. But your wording would seem to imply _a_ recipe builds _a_ p

Re: [yocto] of recipes and packages

2012-08-22 Thread Jeff Osier-Mixon
I tend to think of packages as "ingredients", in keeping with the cooking metaphor. They have version numbers, just as ingredients in the refrigerator have expiration dates. The recipes, however, have their own version numbers, but they are less critical to the success of the build - maybe my Aunt

[yocto] of recipes and packages

2012-08-22 Thread Trevor Woerner
Okay, if the confusion over "yocto" versus "yocto project" versus "poky" and trying to decide whether poky or yocto is a distribution or a build system or sometimes both or neither of either wasn't bad enough... there now comes a new confusion: recipes versus packages an image is composed of pack