[yocto] poky-extras

Richard Purdie richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org
Fri Jun 28 05:57:03 PDT 2013


On Fri, 2013-06-28 at 08:52 -0400, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> On 13-06-28 04:51 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > Hi Bruce/Darren,
> >
> > My attention was drawn to the existence of poky-extras. This was really
> > a short term gap filling repository and I think the time has come to
> > remove it. There are basically two chunks of code in there.
> >
> > The meta-linaro pieces in there haven't been touched in two years and
> > are therefore dead. I think we should delete them to alleviate any
> > confusion.
> >
> > The kernel pieces have been touched more recently. Some moved into the
> > core, mostly its just example boiler plate type code now. I think this
> > needs moving to a better named repository if its still wanted/useful, or
> > we delete it. I personally don't have a strong preference.
> >
> > Can someone take care of sorting this out?
> 
> I can take care of finding it a new home. I use the repo daily, and keep
> bumping it with examples with each new kernel update or release. I was
> working on some urlremapper code for the layer, to replace the old
> boiler plate "uncomment this" examples that are current in the recipes ..
> that work has been backgrounded, but I can pick it up again as part
> of relocating the changes.
> 
> I'm out of the office for the next week and a half, but can have a look
> after that. Does that timeframe work ?

Yes, its not urgent and I don't want to remove something people use. I
do think that this would better as a meta-yocto-kernel or something
similar. How about we simply rename it to that and delete meta-linaro
from it?

Cheers,

Richard





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