[yocto] core-image-sato + firefox for pandaboard

[Davide Soldan]

In data giovedì 21 febbraio 2013 08:19:42, Gary Thomas ha scritto:
> On 2013-02-21 07:52, Davide Soldan wrote:
> > Hi to all!
> > I'm new in building images with yocto for my pandaboard. Trying to build core-image-sato (http://maniacbug.wordpress.com/2012/08/03/pandayocto/) all works fine, but now I want to add some packages to this image.
> > So proceeding like mentioned here https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/yocto/2012-May/009175.html, downloading meta-browser layer and adding this layer to build/conf/bblayers.conf and adding the package firefox to conf/build/local.conf I've got this error:
> >
> > ERROR: No recipes available for:
> >    /home/davide/yocto/poky-denzil-7.0/meta-browser/recipes-gnome/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon_2.32.1.bbappend
> >    /home/davide/yocto/poky-denzil-7.0/meta-browser/recipes-graphics/libxi/libxi_1.6.1.bbappend
> >    /home/davide/yocto/poky-denzil-7.0/meta-browser/recipes-support/nspr/nspr_4.9.4.bbappend
> >
> > So I found, for example, gnome-settings-daemon under meta-openebedded (dependency declared in the README file of meta-browser). Adding the layer "meta-openembedded/meta-gnome" to build/conf/bblayers.conf to satisfy the gnome-settings-daemon dependency I've got the following different error:
> >
> > NOTE: Error expanding variable populate_packages
> > NOTE: Error during finalise of /home/davide/yocto/poky-denzil-7.0/meta-openembedded/meta-gnome/recipes-support/goffice/goffice_0.8.17.bb
> > ERROR: Unable to parse /home/davide/yocto/poky-denzil-7.0/meta-openembedded/meta-gnome/recipes-support/goffice/goffice_0.8.17.bb
> 
> I was able to build this combo (master, not denzil) by only importing
> the necessary recipes, not all of meta-gnome.  I just put them in a
> local layer.
> 
> n.b. FireFox runs OK, but IMO [Google] Chromium is much snappier on the PandaBoard.
> You should be able to build it using the same setup.
> 
> 
Solved the problem: I downloaded the yocto denzil release from the website (tar.gz file) but the layers meta-browser/openembedded-come/meta-openembedded was from git...so the branch of this latest layers was master and not denzil. checking out the correct branch solved the problem!
Thanks!