[yocto] Dogfooding and usability testing Toaster

[Paul Eggleton]

On Wednesday 09 April 2014 16:39:38 Chris Larson wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Rudolf Streif 
<rudolf.streif at linux.com>wrote:
> > That is exciting. I just ran with it and started a build with toaster in
> > 
> > the background. A couple of observations from the get-go:
> >    - South 0.8.4 is also needed in addition to Django. The Toaster Wiki
> >    [1] does not say that but the Contribute to Toaster page [2] does.
> >    - You need to run 'sudo pip install ...' for Django and South
> >    otherwise the installation fails with 'permission denied' for
> >    /usr/lib/python2.7
> >    - Clicking on "Show me the manual" in the Toaster UI directs to [3]
> >    which requires a log in
> >    - Is it possible to relocate/rename the toaster.sqlite database via
> >    configuration setting? If so, could I use the same database for
> >    different
> >    build environments?
> 
> Side note: you can use pip install --user ... rather than sudo pip, to
> install it to your user site-packages directory under ~/.local, which won't
> impact the rest of the system.

I'd like to see this documented using virtualenv [1] to install the additional 
packages - it's so much cleaner than any other solution.

Cheers,
Paul

[1] For those who aren't familiar with virtualenv:
http://simononsoftware.com/virtualenv-tutorial/

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre