[yocto] kernel-tools failure for linux-yoctort_3.0.bb for poky/edison branch.

[Darren Hart]

On 01/12/2012 12:39 PM, Tom Zanussi wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-12-16 at 19:03 -0800, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
>> On 11-12-16 8:34 PM, Darren Hart wrote:
>>> On 12/16/2011 05:22 PM, Bodke, Kishore K wrote:
>>>>
>>>> With the attached Darren's kern-tools-native_git.bb file, build was success.
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Kishore.
>>>
>>> See the patch I just sent:kern-tools: Include do_install() in bbappend
>>> for what I believe to be the solution.
>>>
>>> I suppose the proper solution would be to version the kern-tools-native
>>> recipe when major things like that change, but given the nature of this
>>> layer, I think the above patch is adequate.
>>
>> That's not the solution to either problem (well, yes, it's a solution
>> and there's nothing inherently wrong with it, it's just covering up
>> the underlying issue) which is a layer dependency issue. In this case,
>> meta-kernel-dev tracks the master branch of poky, not any other branch
>> or version. And that is implicit, not explicit, hence why it got into
>> this tangle.
>>
>> We could simply branch meta-kernel-dev and have an edison branch for
>> it, not modify the appends to contain something that will just break
>> again in the future.
>>
>> But meta-kernel-dev isn't officially used by much at the moment, so
>> I'm not convinced that branching it is worth the trouble (but I can
>> be convinced otherwise). I'd rather either just remove the kern-tools
>> bbappend (I'm probably the only one on the planet that really needs
>> it), or just trust people to know what they are up to with the
>> meta-kernel-dev layer.
>>
> 
> Revisiting this - meta-kernel-dev is used in the documentation, and
> Scott has now run up against this when testing and updating it.  Since
> the documentation does use edison, and the walk-throughs have the user
> check out edison branches of both poky and the BSP layers, it would be
> consistent to have the user also do the same for meta-kernel-dev.
> Probably just an edison branch with the kern-tools bbappend removed
> would work fine...
> 
> Tom

Works for me.

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Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
Yocto Project - Linux Kernel