On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 5:28 PM, Paul Eggleton < paul.eggle...@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> Hi Brian, > > On Tuesday 16 July 2013 17:06:46 Brian Hutchinson wrote: > > What is the "right" way of adding the meta-networking to Yocto? I'm > > obviously not doing something right. > > > > At the poky directory level, I cloned meta-openembedded. I then tried to > > go to my build's local.conf and adding meta-networking and meta-oe layers > > and I'm getting a dependency message when I try to bitbake net-snmp that > > says: > > > > ERROR: Layer dependency core of layer networking not found > > > > This makes me think that meta-openembedded is wanting openembedded-core > but > > I've never tried to use that with Yocto before so I thought I better ask > > before I totally mess up my build environment. > > > > I have a rootfilesystem build based on Denzil and I need net-snmp and the > > meta-networking Denzil branch is pretty much empty so I cloned master in > > order to get net-snmp so I don't know if mixing branches could be my > > problem (don't know how much that matters but I usually try to use the > same > > release branch of various components). > > Mixing branches is the issue here. meta-networking added a LAYERDEPENDS on > "core" which the denzil poky/OE-Core doesn't provide. This is just an > incidental error though, if it hadn't failed on this you'd have hit other > problems. > > meta-networking wasn't even around in the denzil days. If you need net-snmp > from there on top of denzil the only way is to backport the recipe and any > missing dependencies and add it to an additional layer (assuming you don't > already have a layer for customisations). In practice backporting should be > fairly trivial; I'd suggest copying the recipe over and seeing how far you > get. > > Cheers, > Paul > > Thanks Paul, I worried about mixing branches since I've never tried that before. The only reason I picked Denzil is because I need ti816x support and Dylan and Danny don't have machine confs for it in meta-ti. So what would be easier, getting the machine support I need in Dylan or back porting the net-snmp recipe to Denzil? Regards, Brian
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