[yocto] Raspberry Pi mailing list?

[Andrei Gherzan]

Cheers John,

On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 8:02 PM, r10kindsofpeople <r10kindsofpeople at gmail.com
> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Monday, July 9, 2012, r10kindsofpeople <r10kindsofpeople at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >> There was some discussion of setting up a mailing list for Raspberry
> >> PI back in May...did anything come of this?
> >>
> >> Or is this [Yocto] the best place to post build questions regarding
> >> meta-raspberrypi ?
> >
> > Build related makes sense for yocto to ml I think
> >
>
> I suspect they're more tightly related to the meta-raspberrypi than
> general Yocto, but here goes with an example.  (Apologies in advance
> if I have terminology wrong, I'm still getting up to speed with
> Yocto).
>
>
No worries about this.


> To begin, I did a git clone of the Yocto master, then a git-clone of
> meta-raspberrypi from github djwillis, then (after setting MACHINE and
> DISTRO per readme) bitbake rpi-hwup-image.
>
> Is this a silly thing to do?  Should I be using an earlier release of
> Yocto?  Or...?
>
>
I will modify readme to advise the user to checkout a specific commit known
as working. Good hint!


> The first sign of trouble was an error message saying there were no
> recipes for netbase-4.7 (for which meta-raspberrypi had a .bbappend).
> Noting that meta was at netbase-5.0 and that the .bbappend at a glance
> did not look to be version specific, I renamed the meta-raspberrypi
> recipe and directory to netbase-5.0, and the build was off and
> running.
>

Fixed and merged


> Now I'm getting fetch failures for a variety of libraries, and, I
> think kernel-3.1.9.
>
> I can probably sort out some of these using the same process, but the
> larger question is whether I'm on the right track.
>
>
Definitely you are. All you need now is a git pull as i pushed all the
changes and you should be able to bake an image without any problems. Let
me know if everything is OK.


@g
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