Re: [yocto] release management

2017-09-22 Thread Svein Seldal
I have also been slightly puzzled over the meticulousness and determinism of Yocto on recipe level, but the left-to-yourself thinking for the top-level meta-level and configuration management. We have chosen to make a custom configuration management (CM) and lightweight build system on top of

Re: [yocto] release management

2017-08-18 Thread Chris Z.
Hi, Regarding submodule for layers. This is good when no one beside you use it. Especially with yocto layers. But when dev starts to use it. You or other support team will be faced against wall of problems with basic understanding of git submodules and index. But google starts to invest some fund

Re: [yocto] release management

2017-08-15 Thread Joshua Watt
On Tue, 2017-08-15 at 09:25 +0200, Mike Looijmans wrote: > On 14-08-17 21:10, Gunnar Andersson wrote: > > > > Hey Russell > > > > I don't claim to be an authority on best practices but I will share > > some > > thoughts. > > > > On Sun, 2017-08-13 at 06:58 -0400, Russell Peterson wrote: > > > H

Re: [yocto] release management

2017-08-15 Thread Mike Looijmans
On 14-08-17 21:10, Gunnar Andersson wrote: Hey Russell I don't claim to be an authority on best practices but I will share some thoughts. On Sun, 2017-08-13 at 06:58 -0400, Russell Peterson wrote: Hello. As I learn more about yocto and more importantly gain practical experience with it I ha

Re: [yocto] release management

2017-08-14 Thread Russell Peterson
Thanks very much, Gunnar, for your detailed and helpful response. Not sure I will go the git submodule path. My initial try is using a script in my build environment that pulls in whatever layers it needs via git clone and then using a specific commit in a specific branch for that specific buil

Re: [yocto] release management

2017-08-14 Thread Gunnar Andersson
Hey Russell I don't claim to be an authority on best practices but I will share some thoughts. On Sun, 2017-08-13 at 06:58 -0400, Russell Peterson wrote: > Hello. > > As I learn more about yocto and more importantly gain practical experience > with it I have started to think about my release st

[yocto] release management

2017-08-13 Thread Russell Peterson
Hello. As I learn more about yocto and more importantly gain practical experience with it I have started to think about my release structure. Is there a “best practices” document or something like that that speaks to this? For example, how does everyone deal with “external” meta layer dependen