[yocto] poky-extras

[Bruce Ashfield]

On 13-06-28 08:57 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> 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?

Agreed. That's an effective way to clarify what's left in the layer.
I'll take care of cleaning up the contents later.

If it's just the rename, I assume Michael can take care of it and
there's nothing immediate for me to do.

Cheers,

Bruce

>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
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