[yocto] Samba server?

[Martin Jansa]

On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 02:29:08PM -0800, Paul D. DeRocco wrote:
> > From: Martin Jansa [mailto:martin.jansa at gmail.com] 
> > 
> > No, adding extra layer is pretty basic operation and should 
> > be properly
> > documented. Can you send some pointers what have you read 
> > about adding a
> > layer and what wasn't easy to understand?
> 
> How to theoretically add a layer was easy enough to understand, but when it
> failed to work, I came to a dead end.
> 
> I'm trying to make a basic non-GUI image based on the Atom cedartrail-nopvr
> machine, plus Samba, so I began with the following items in BBLAYERS:
> 
>   meta
>   meta-yocto
>   meta-yocto-bsp
>   meta-intel
>   meta-intel/meta-cedartrail
> 
> and I built core-image-base. That worked fine, but of course it had no Samba
> in it, nor is Samba anywhere to be found within the Yocto stuff. So I
> downloaded meta-openembedded from their GIT server, which I know from my
> Gumstix experience contains Samba in its meta-oe layer, added
> meta-openembedded/meta-oe to the end of BBLAYERS, and tried bitbaking both
> core-image-base and samba. I quickly got the following error:
> 
> 
> ERROR: ParseError at
> /home/pauld/yocto-atom/poky-danny-8.0/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-grap
> hics/ttf-fonts/ttf.inc:12: Could not inherit file classes/fontcache.bbclass

From those errors I guess you're trying to add meta-oe from master
branch which indeed is not compatible with danny release, use meta-oe
from danny branch.

> (And why doesn't Yocto include Samba anyway? It seems more of a common
> standard package than a lot of the stuff I see included.)

That's why it's called oe-core. uncommon stuff should be moved to more
specific layers.

-- 
Martin 'JaMa' Jansa     jabber: Martin.Jansa at gmail.com
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