On Thu, 2011-08-04 at 10:50 -0700, Todd Cooper wrote: > Would this be worth putting on the list of items wished for in the > future? > > It sounds like the problem is difficult, but not impossible.
Most things are possible :). The implementation isn't hard, maintaining some kind of translation table for the dependencies, shared library provision lists and so on is a *lot* of work though. It would really take someone with a specific use case to step forward along with manpower for it to have a chance of happening. Even then it would work for a specific set of packages and wouldn't translate to any other package feed. Cheers, Richard > > > ______________________________________________________________ > From: Richard Purdie <richard.pur...@linuxfoundation.org> > To: Todd Cooper <todd_coo...@yahoo.com> > Cc: "yocto@yoctoproject.org" <yocto@yoctoproject.org> > Sent: Thursday, August 4, 2011 10:59 AM > Subject: Re: [yocto] prebuilt pacakages > > On Thu, 2011-08-04 at 07:42 -0700, Todd Cooper wrote: > > Is there any way to make Yocto try to get prebuilt packages > from known > > repositories rather than trying to rebuild the world? > > The system supports a cache of prebuilt objects in the form of > the > sstate data to accelerate build times if nothing changes. It > doesn't > directly support using prebuilt packages directly though as > its a much > harder problem to solve than you first realise. > > A an example, given a package feed, its very hard to work out > library > provision within that package feed or dependency naming. > > Cheers, > > Richard > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto