[yocto] prebuilt pacakages

[Todd Cooper]

Can I suggest that Yocto put it on the futures list, but with a lower priority?




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>From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org>
>To: Todd Cooper <todd_cooper at yahoo.com>
>Cc: "yocto at yoctoproject.org" <yocto at 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.purdie at linuxfoundation.org>
>>         To: Todd Cooper <todd_cooper at yahoo.com>
>>         Cc: "yocto at yoctoproject.org" <yocto at 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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