Can I suggest that Yocto put it on the futures list, but with a lower priority?
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>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 6:43 PM
>Subject: Re: [yocto] prebuilt pacakages
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>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?
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>> It sounds like the problem is difficult, but not impossible.
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>Most things are possible :).
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>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.
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>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.
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>Cheers,
>
>Richard
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>> ______________________________________________________________
>> 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
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>> 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?
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>> 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.
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>> A an example, given a package feed, its very hard to work out
>> library
>> provision within that package feed or dependency naming.
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>> Cheers,
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>> Richard
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